registries and designated experts (was: Re: APPSDIR review of draft-farrell-decade-ni-07, major design issue (one or two URI schemes))

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 12 June 2012 14:19 UTC

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[change of subject]

On 6/12/12 3:13 AM, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
> 
> On 2012/06/05 20:11, Stephen Farrell wrote:

<snip/>

>> I strongly disagree with merging ni&  nih. Though that clearly
>> could be done, it would be an error.
>>
>> There was no such comment on the uri-review list and the designated
>> expert was happy. That review was IMO the time for such comments
>> and second-guessing the designated expert at this stage seems
>> contrary to the registration requirements. So process-wise I
>> think your main comment is late.
> 
> First, if IETF Last Call is too late to make serious technical comments
> on drafts, then I think we have to rename it to IETF Too-Late Call.
> 
> Second, designated experts are there to check for minimum requirements
> for a registration, and to give advice as they see fit (and have time).
> I'm myself a designated expert on "Character Sets", and I have
> definitely in the past approved, and would again in the future approve,
> registrations for stuff on which I would complain strongly if the
> question was "is this a good technical solution".
> 
> Graham Klyne, the designated expert for URI scheme registrations, has
> confirmed offline that he does not see his role as "expert reviewer" as
> judging the technical merit of a URI scheme proposal.

By my reading, the "happiana" discussions [1] over the 12+ months have
led most participants to the conclusion that registration does not imply
standardization, and that it's not the role of the designated expert to
act as a gatekeeper with respect to the technical merits of the
technologies that trigger registration requests. It might be good to
have a wider discussion about the purpose of registries and the role of
designated experts, but IMHO it's not correct to conclude that a
technology is acceptable just because the designated expert didn't
object to the registrations related to that technology.

Peter

[1] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/happiana