[regext] AD review of draft-ietf-regext-tmch-func-spec-08

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

First: Please accept my apology for the delay in handling this
document.  It's been a particularly busy time for the ADs, and I've
let this slip for a lot longer than I'd thought it would.

My main comment about this document is that I find it odd as a working
group document: it strikes me as something that ought to be published
by ICANN as a policy document, not as something that should come out
of an IETF working group.  An alternative path in the RFC series would
be through the Independent Stream, which allows publication of
Informational documents without getting IETF consensus.

What, exactly, would IETF consensus mean for this document.  As it's
describing an operational external system, we don't really have the
ability to change it.  All we can do is decide to publish it... or
not, yes?

I think it will be very hard to sell this to the IESG.  Will the
working group consider an alternative path for publishing this (ICANN
or the ISE, or something else)?

Barry