[quicwg/base-drafts] Allow provisional registrations for all registries (#3170)

[Martin Thomson <[e-mail]>]

This overhauls the system for IANA registries to use a unified scheme that allows provisional registration.  This seems pretty complicated in terms of nailing down all the corner cases, but it is fairly simple in practice:

* Provisional registration is easy, it only requires that the requester provide contact information and (ideally) the codepoint they want. They could provide more, but at their discretion.

* Permanent registration requires that you fill out the fields. 

Experts are required for both, but only really to prevent spam.  We have a few more requirements for permanent registrations of frame types, but that is more for the purposes of advice, because sending an new frame leads to protocol errors if you haven't agreed to that in the past.

I've sketched out a strawman for a codepoint reclamation process.  That advises that experts try to find some use of the codepoint.  There is a date on registrations that can guide the selection of codepoints to reclaim, but these can be updated any time by anyone who wants to keep the registration "live".

I wanted to sketch this out for transport first, but I intend to update this PR with changes to the HTTP draft if these policies are agreeable.

Closes #3109. Closes #3020.
You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:

  https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/3170

-- Commit Summary --

  * Allow provisional registrations for all registries

-- File Changes --

    M draft-ietf-quic-transport.md (226)

-- Patch Links --

https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/3170.patch
https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/3170.diff

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