Re: [apps-discuss] Comments on draft-ietf-appsawg-received-state

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

>
> 1) Change the IANA rules for registering new states to Expert Review.
> Specification Requires is overkill.  (Expert Review might be too, but I
> didn't feel totally comfortable busting it down that far.  What do others
> think?)
>

I think this is a good idea.  I think FCFS would also be adequate, and
encourage the WG to use that.  The reason is that it's far better to
encourage people to register status codes that they want to use, and not to
put barriers in the way.  The usual reluctance to use FCFS is concern that
people will register a bunch of garbage.  In fact, (1) this hasn't ever
happened and (2) IANA would ask the IESG to intervene if they got a
suspicious flood of registration requests.

In any case, you're going to need to change the template if you don't
require a specification.   I suggest this:

OLD
Specification: The specification document that defines the queue state
being registered.

NEW
Specification: A pointer to a specification document that defines the queue
state being registered, if one exists; else, a more detailed description of
the queue state, to aid in interoperable usage.

Barry