[Ltru] Re: Review of 4646bis-10, sections 3.5 to App. B

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:00:04PM +0900,
 Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote 
 a message of 28 lines which said:

> I concur with Frank that MUSTard in the IANA section serves no
> purpose.

The purpose is to be sure that a *minimum* set of services is
provided. This is based on practical experience with IANA (such as the
archiving-of-forms issue). The IANA, through David Conrad, made very
clear that they already have a lot of work and were not eager to
maintain things where they were not explicitely asked to do so. When
queried about UTF-8 in the registry, for intance, IANA said basically
"what you want, but please write it down clearly".

[This mandate also helps IANA when they report to their higher
management layers.]

We defer to IANA to provide more services (such as the fact that their
Web server honors If-Modified-Since, which is very convenient when you
want to access the registry periodically, although it is not and
probably should no be mandated by the RFC), if they can/want.

And we rely on common sense and good engineering practices for things
such as backups :-)

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