Re: Last Call: <draft-leiba-cotton-iana-5226bis-12.txt> (Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs) to Best Current Practice

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Sat, 04 June 2016 23:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-leiba-cotton-iana-5226bis-12.txt> (Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs) to Best Current Practice
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On 04/06/16 23:59, Ben Campbell wrote:
> 
> If people think that readers don't use the registries to find the specs,
> that opens up much bigger questions about required author hoop-jumping.

That was the assertion in the earlier discussion.

And I'd not be surprised if starting from an IANA registry were very
rare.

S.