[auth48] Re: AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9965 <draft-ietf-emu-eap-arpa-10> for your review

[Megan Ferguson <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dhruv,

We see the following in the minutes.  We would benefit from additional guidance; it’s unclear to us who should be requesting formal approval.  The minutes indicate that the document is the request.  Should a separate request to the IAB come from the authors?  Or perhaps from the EMU WG or the IESG because it’s an IETF doc?  Is our asking about it on a public list sufficient?

3. Request for eap.arpa
Wes Hardaker reported that EAP that will make a request for a delegation under .arpa; the request will be included in the IANA considerations section of a forthcoming document, and come to the IAB for approval at that point.

Thank you.

Megan Ferguson
RFC Production Center


> On May 1, 2026, at 5:15 AM, Dhruv Dhody <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Megan, 
> 
> This was discussed at the early stage back in 2020, and it was minuted at  https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/minutes-interim-2020-iab-18-20200617/.
> 
> Now, we should receive an approval request so we can formally approve it.  
> 
> Thanks! 
> Dhruv
> 
> On Fri, May 1, 2026 at 7:02 AM Megan Ferguson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> IAB (Dhruv),
> 
> Please see the following regarding this document:
> 
> 
> >> 
> >> 5) <!-- [rfced] We had a few questions about the following:
> >> 
> >> Original:
> >>  NOTE: the "arpa" domain is controlled by the IAB.  Allocation of the
> >>  eap.arpa. domain name requires agreement from the IAB.
> >> 
> >> a) We have updated this text as follows as requested in the RFC Editor
> >> Note.  Please review and let us know if you have any objections.
> >> 
> >> Current:
> >> As the controller of the "arpa" domain, the IAB has approved the
> >> allocation of eap.arpa.
> >> 
> >> b) We were curious if the reader might need a pointer to where this
> >> agreement could be found?  Or any further citation needed here?
> >> -->
> > 
> >  I don't know of any official statement from the IAB.  It would be worth double-checking with the IAB that they are aware of this request, and have approved it.
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Megan Ferguson
> RFC Production Center
>