Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt> (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

[Cullen Jennings <[e-mail]>]

On Jan 27, 2011, at 17:10 , Joe Touch wrote:

> On 1/27/2011 12:52 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
> ...
> >> Small Issue #3: I object to anonymous review
> >>
> >> The current review is anonymous and this draft does not seem to change that. I don't like anonymous review - it's not how we do things at IETF and it encourages really bad behavior. I have several emails with an expert reviewer relayed via IANA where the conversation was going no where - once I knew the name of the reviewer, the whole conversation changed and stuff quickly came back to the realm of sane. I'm not willing to forward these emails to the list as that would just not be kind to anyone but I am happy to forward them to the IESG if they think looking at them is really critical.
> >
> > I can see your point, and I personally have no problem with disclosing the reviewer identity. What do others think?
> 
> AFAICT, the experts team reports to IANA. We make recommendations to
> them. They are the ones who have the conversation with the applicant.
> They can take our advice or not - that's their decision.

I think you are pretty misrepresenting the situation. My impression of the reality of the situation is that if the IANA did not like the advice of the expert reviewer, they might ask the AD to override but short of that they pretty much do whatever the expert says.