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Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-alg-allocation-02

Samuel Weiler <weiler@watson.org> Wed, 03 March 2010 01:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-alg-allocation-02
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> The -02 version of registry-fixes says
>
>   The requirement status for all new algorithms will be DISCRETIONARY
>   unless a Standards Track document changes that (possibly including
>   the Standards Track document defining the algorithm).  Only a
>   Standards Track document may make an algorithm ENCOURAGED or
>   MANDATORY or remove the MANDATORY or ENCOURAGED designation (to
>   DISCOURAGED or OBSOLETE for example).
>
> There is no reference from the current (alg-allocation) document to
> the registry-fixes doc because we were trying, very hard, to keep each
> document specific and focussed.
>
> Does that help?

No.  alg-allocation, read by itself, is still confusing.  Rather than 
cite the new metric for changing requirement status (as being 
defined/changed in registry-fixes), alg-allocation could instead cite 
the current metric.  Earlier in this thread you said that was to 
update 4034 (=standards action).

No matter what the metric is, I want alg-allocation to be explicit 
about the metric.

-- Sam

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