Re: Ping

Craig;

>    As I'm sure you're aware, we do not have a meeting in Minneapolis; however,
>    we do have a draft out there, <draft-ietf-urlreg-procedures-05.txt>.  I've
>    seen no public discussion of it -- is everyone satisfied with this?  (The
> 
> I'm speaking for myself and not the group as a whole, but I'm not sure
> that _anyone_ is satisfied with it.  My recollection is that after it
> was last revised, I asked a number of questions (so, how does one get
> an OID?  is the process cheap and easy?  etc.) and that there were no
> good answers to these questions.  Also, the properties that some
> people had thought best about it appeared to vanish upon closer
> examination.
> 
> Again, speaking for myself, I don't see myself using any number-based
> scheme.

Why do we have to bother?

The reality is that people use new URL names without bothering
to register them to IANA.

IETF has lost the control because it tried to make the registration
restrictive.

							Masataka Ohta