Re: [Curdle] Time to Review IANA SSH Registries Policies?

["Mark D. Baushke" <[e-mail]>]

Sean Turner <[e-mail]> writes:

> Hi! The IANA registries for SSH were established long ago when the
> fashion was to require an RFC to set any value (see
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8126/ for definitions of the
> various registry rules). IPsec, TLS, and others initially did the same
> thing, but have since backed down the high bar and gone to expert
> review for many if not all of their registries. Is there interest in
> reviewing the SSH registries to see if it makes sense to move them to
> expert review (or some other level)?

I suppose Expert Review is a possibly. I am not entirely sure how the
current Area Directors will select the pool names of experts to provide
to the IESG. The SSH working group mailing list is still running, but
that group was disbanded long ago and CURdle is in the process of
wrapping up right now.

> This would likely result in setting up a pool of experts and providing
> them with some instructions, but that’s been done before for other
> registries.

True, but I am under the impression that the pool of experts were being
drawn from highly active groups.

I agree that an update to

  https://www.iana.org/assignments/ssh-parameters/ssh-parameters.xhtml

may be useful. Possibly to even include commonly used private extensions
for some of the options.

	-- Mark