Re: [tcpm] request for feedback - proposed update to draft-touch-tcpm-experimental-options

Brandon Williams <brandon.williams@akamai.com> Tue, 19 February 2013 17:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] request for feedback - proposed update to draft-touch-tcpm-experimental-options
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On 02/19/2013 12:23 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
>
>
> On 2/19/2013 6:51 AM, Brandon Williams wrote:
>> On 02/15/2013 02:56 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
>>> 1. do you agree with change (A)?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>>
>>> 2. do you agree with change (B)?
>>
>> Yes, provided that "OK to indicate multiple assignees" means that the
>> multiple assignees should all agree.
>
> So what if they don't?
>
> Or, more specifically, what if they:
>
> 	- refuse
> 	- cannot be contacted
>
> Or should we just say that the IANA list is the 'first to file', and
> don't really list anything else?
>
> Joe
>

My thinking is that one of the goals of a registry would be to avoid 
collisions, which suggests that 'first to file' language would be good. 
I don't think it's absolutely necessary to disallow multiple assignees, 
but would prefer that to an approach that too readily allows collisions.

--Brandon

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Brandon Williams; Principal Software Engineer
Cloud Engineering; Akamai Technologies Inc.