Re: [Bier] Genart telechat review of draft-ietf-bier-mpls-encapsulation-09

[Alia Atlas <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 9:27 AM, Eric C Rosen <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 10/16/2017 8:01 PM, Alia Atlas wrote:
>
>> I don't believe that a document has to be Standards Track to create a
>> registry that will require Standards Track going forward.
>> It is a bit unusual, but I don't see a process problem.
>>
>>
> If our documents get converted to Standards Track, this won't be a
> problem.  But if they stay Experimental for an extended period of time, an
> issue could arise the next time we need to allocate a codepoint.   ("Since
> you have no Standards Track documents, we can't allow you to register any
> codepoints in registries with "Standards Action" policy.)  So we might want
> a registration policy that will allow codepoint allocations to be done in
> Experimental track documents that are accepted by the WG.  Maybe we should
> change the registration policy to "IETF Review".  That seems to be almost
> the same as Standard Action, but does not require Standards Track
> documents.  And it is still eligible for Early Allocation.


True enough.  That could work as well.  I don't see near-term updates to
the Next Protocol registry as very likely, but I'd be fine with this
approach.

Regards,
Alia