Re: Secdir last call review of draft-nottingham-rfc5785bis-08

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

> > If the document says to see the registry for registration instructions, there had better be instructions there, no?
>
> Yes, but if we put the instructions in the RFC, people are likely to follow them -- even when they have been
> changed down the line. Also, it creates confusion as to whether it's necessary to update the RFC if they change.
>
> The text we're discussing is sourced from RC8288:
>   https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8288#section-4.2
> ... which didn't have any such discussion around it. If we're going to continue this, I'd like to hear from IANA
> itself about what level of instruction it'd like. As I've said, the last time around (8288), I got feedback from them
> that such a level of detail in the RFC was counterproductive, and that we could trust folks -- and our
> process -- to do the right thing.

I agree with all that, but that still misses the point:
When someone reads in the RFC that they should follow the instructions
in the registry, and they go look at the registry and see nothing,
what are they to do?

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