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Re: [rfc-i] Referencing IANA registries

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Sat, 17 December 2016 00:38 UTC

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On 12/16/2016 4:23 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 17/12/2016 12:13, Adrian Hope-Bailie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I can't seem to find instructions on the correct way to reference an
>> existing IANA registry in an RFC. How is this supposed to be done?
>>
>> For example RFC 4147 has the following references:
>>
>>    [iana-ipv6-registry]  IANA, "IANA IPv6 Address Registry",
>>                          December 2004.
>>
>>    [iana-ipv6-tla]       IANA, "IANA Registry of IPv6 Top Level
>>                          Aggregation Identifier Assignments",
>>                          December 2004.
>>
>> But there is no specification of those formats.
> ...
> Answer 2: Some RFCs now cite the relevant URLs. For example, RFC 7217 cites:
>
>    [IANA-RESERVED-IID]
>               IANA, "Reserved IPv6 Interface Identifiers",
>               <http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-interface-ids>.
>
> I think this is a Good Idea and should be done whenever possible.

That's what we did in RFC6335:

   [PORTREG]         Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA),
                                 "Service Name and Transport Protocol
Port Number
                                 Registry",
                                
<http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers>.

I don't think there's any useful convention for the citation label.

Joe

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