Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-leiba-cotton-iana-5226bis

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

>
> I think that this is a point that should be made for anyone that needs to
> specify the registration policy. My feeling is that when the document is
> develop the focus is on the specified registry without looking at similar
> ones. Maybe the document should suggest that the IESG or document shepherd
> will try to verify that consistency was checked.
>
>
I'm very wary of suggesting that people copy registration policies from one
registry to another.  Mindless consistency between related registries in
specifically a non-goal here: the important point is that the policy for
each registry should be selected with though, and should apply to the needs
of *that* registry, even if that makes related registries differ.  I think
the document is clear about that.

We get ourselves in trouble when a batch of registries are all given the
same policy, and that policy turns out to be right for some and wrong for
others.

Barry