Re: [Secdispatch] [EXTERNAL] Please help dispatch "Dangerous Labels"

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[e-mail]>]

On Tue 2022-07-26 18:28:46 +0000, Salz, Rich wrote:
> I don't think a designatured expert can dissause folks (not their
> job), but you can make the registry bar high, like standards-track
> required RFC

hm, this points to a tension in the draft.  I want these registries to
exist for two distinct reasons:

 a) to make protocol designers and deployers sad when they are
    obliged/encouraged to register a label here, and to give them a
    clear reference for *why* these patterns are ill-advised.

 b) to make it easy for administrators (or people who build
    administration tools) to maintain blocklists of registrable labels
    that they need to be careful about.

Making the registry bar high would just encourage people to deploy
ill-advised systems without documenting the traps that they're laying,
which defeats (b).

      --dkg