Re: [rfc-i] Referencing IANA registries

Thanks, I was looking for something like Answer 2.

Where does the reference title ( [IANA-RESERVED-IID] ) come from in that
instance?
Should I just make something up that looks sensible?

Those references were just examples I found online, the registries I want
to reference are the "Named Information Hash Algorithm Registry" and "Named
Information URI Parameter Definitions" which (to make things more complex)
are both at the same URL:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/named-information/named-information.xhtml

On 16 December 2016 at 16:23, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com
> 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 1: When I hit one of these, I go to http://www.iana.org/protocols
> and search within the page. But it isn't black and white; the first one
> doesn't
> exist today under that name. Probably this:
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-
> space/ipv6-address-space.xhtml
>
> (I sincerely hope you are not really trying to use the highly obsolete TLA
> format.)
>
> 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.
>
>     Brian
>