Re: [Rfced-future] Comments on draft-iab-rfcefdp-rfced-model-12

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Saturday, March 12, 2022 12:07 -0700 Peter Saint-Andre
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>...
>> In practice, it has always been a two-way flow, even when the
>> RFC Editor and IANA held discussions by looking into a mirror.
>> And even with that level of coordination, it has often been a
>> bit of a dance because of the long-standing principle that
>> RFCs do not direct IANA to assign, or even request,
>> particular code points.  So please try to write the text
>> along the lines Ben suggests, e.g., as something more like
>> "Coordinate with IANA as necessary to ensure that any
>> registry value assignments that actually appear RFCs are
>> consistent with the registries."
> 
> What I suggested most recently was:
> 
> 14. Coordinating with IANA to ensure that RFCs accurately
> document registration processes and assigned values for IANA
> registries.
 
> Note that this mentions registration processes in addition to
> assigned values, because many RFCs establish registries and
> the processes for registering values in those registries need
> to be correct, too.

Yes.  Entirely correct.  Sorry I did not see that suggestion
before writing my note.

thanks,
   john