RE: Proposed amendment to language of draft-ietf-url-procedures

> > How, do you think, IANA is managing collisons, identifications
> > and interoperability of TCP port numbers free-for-all?

Don't rhetorical questions deserve rhetorical answers?

RFC 2434 (BCP 26) identifies several different ways in which name
and number spaces may be managed by IANA, depending on the
characteristics of the name space. "port numbers" and "URI scheme
names" have different characteristics and require different
management procedures.

I cannot tell if you are disputing RFC 2434 as a best current
practice or if you believe that port numbers and URI scheme
names are so similar in characteristics as a name space that
they deserve equivalent registration procedures (ask IANA
for a URI scheme name, and IANA assigns the 'next' one?) 

Larry
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