[stir] stir-certs-01: Expert Review?

[Eric Burger <[e-mail]>]

I heard two broad schools of thought on expert review. One theory is that since making determinations of who is authorized to update registrations is fraught with unsolvable Layer-9 issues, and since IANA is ill equipped to solve unsolvable Layer-9 issues, that IANA should take an extreme hands-off position and register anything that comes their way that meets the “identify the registrant” criteria specified in the draft. The other theory is that IANA can pass off requests to an expert that can triage registrations that would pass the “identify the registrant” criteria yet be obviously bogus. E.g., 10,000 registrations come in at once from the same place registering things that have a globally accepted, well-known authority, and it would be obvious the registrant does not have those authorities. However, we would “know it when we see it” and stay clear of the many jurisdictions where various governments, some UN recognized and others not, lay claim to a particular resource. In those instances, as laid out in the draft, we could have multiple registrations and not have IANA get into the Layer-9 (Layer-10, as now we’re talking governments of governments?) unsolvable problem.

Opinions? I did hear Alyssa say that if we lay out easy to follow, clear, uncontroversial steps, IANA can cleanly execute them. So, if you’ve got an algorithm, put it forth now.