Re: [Idr] Lars Eggert's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-registry-04: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> Wed, 24 March 2021 20:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Lars Eggert's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ls-registry-04: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Hi,

On 2021-3-24, at 21:39, Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk> wrote:
>> DISCUSS:
>> 
>> I'm putting in a "discuss" DISCUSS that I expect to clear during the
>> call. Several other ADs raised issues that deserve discussion. While they may
>> not fall under the "discuss criteria", they also don't fall under the "discuss
>> non-criteria" and I want to make sure we spent some time on discussing them.
> 
> That's perfectly reasonable.
> 
> I wish there was a way for the IESG to table something for discussion without using the "Discuss a document" hook which makes the authors (and the watchers) feel that *they* should be part of the discussion. But, anyway, it seems that there is something here that the IESG needs to discuss, so "whatever works."

I wish so, too, but we're limited by the current toolchain here, as you know. I guess I could have put an explicit "non-ADs ignore this" into the text above...


> COMMENT:
>> 
>> Section 2.1, paragraph 4, comment:
>>>   In all cases of review by the Designated Expert (DE) described here,
>>>   the DE is expected to check the clarity of purpose and use of the
>>>   requested code points.  The following points apply to the registries
>>>   discussed in this document:
>> 
>> The process outlined in the rest of this section seems to define rules that are
>> basically equivalent to doing an RFC7120 "early allocation" for these
>> registries. Why is that existing process not sufficient?
> 
> It achieves a similar end with some slight variations. I can't speak for the WG as to why they preferred this approach, but:
> - 7120 requires a stable WG I-D. Thus:
>   - an early WG I-D doesn't qualify

RFC7120 requires:

   c.  The specifications of these code points must be stable; i.e., if
       there is a change, implementations based on the earlier and later
       specifications must be seamlessly interoperable.

It seems one would want this sort of stability here, too?

>   - a non-WG I-D doesn't qualify

It's not clear to me that RFC7120 requires this. Also, this document says "SHOULD only consider requests that arise from I-Ds that have already been accepted as Working Group documents..." which is a similar limitation.

>   - a non-IETF document doesn't qualify

RFC7120 also applies to "Specification Required" registries for which no IETF document is needed.

> - 7120 allocations have to be renewed
>   - this is extra effort
>   - only one renewal is allowed unless the IESG is invoked "under rare circumstances"
>   - the code point "expires" if someone forgets to renew

Fair point. But this document defines a mechanism whereby chairs and the ADs are tasked to remember to make IANA deprecate the codepoints when a document isn't published (or I guess published with incompatible changes to the revision for which the allocation was made). That seems to suffer from similar drawbacks.

Thanks,
Lars