Re: INFO Framework: IANA Registry

Paul Kyzivat <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
OK, I agree.

Eric Burger wrote:
> The nightmare is the proliferation of X-mumble (e-mail), P-mumble (SIP), 
> g.mumble, etc., especially when the experiment becomes standard.
> 
> I'd much rather have a registration that looks like:
> 
> Package Name     Contact                            Reference
> keypress         SIP Work Group <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>     
>  RFCYYYY
> coolpackage      Proprietary Co <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>   none
> 
> (where RFCYYYY is some standards track RFC)
> 
> 
> 
> And then, someday we get
> 
> coolpackage      Proprietary Co <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>   RFCZZZZ
> 
> (where RFCZZZZ is some Informational RFC or link to a stable document)
> 
> 
> The multiple tree way gives us X-coolpackage at best and 
> com.example.coolpackage at worst, which might make foobar.com not want 
> to advertise example.com.  Plus the package name give us a hint to what 
> it does...
> 
> 
> On Nov 19, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Eric Burger wrote:
>>
>>> We can also have two trees, one Specification Required and one 
>>> Private. This has been proven to be an interoperability and marketing 
>>> nightmare, but I will put it out there for completeness.
>>
>> Can you say more? Why would it be more of a nightmare than FCFS?
>>
>>> I would offer we go with First Come First Served.  We can have a 
>>> field for a reference, giving us the best of the specification 
>>> required (you can look up what a published specification is) and 
>>> Private (if you are creating a private Info Package, you do not have 
>>> to specify anything other than the package name).
>>> Please Vote:
>>> [ ] First Come First Served with pointer to optional specification
>>> [ ] First Come First Served
>>> [ ] Specification Required
>>> [ ] Expert Review
>>> [X] Two trees: Specification Required and Private
>>
>> IMO this is better than FCFS with pointer because it gives a higher 
>> degree of legitimacy to those with specifications, which provides an 
>> incentive to get that.
>>
>> But I will make FCFS w/opt spec my 2nd choice.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
> 
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