Re: [tlp-interest] Proposed Policy on Rights in IANA Parameter Registry Data

On the one hand, it is clearly not the trust's intention to change the 
IANA policies for any of the allocation.

On the other hand, with the existing understanding of policy (that we 
are trying to formalize) anyone can copy the IANA data to their own 
site, and then ad entries claiming other values on their site.  I do not 
know of any way we can sensibly change the terms to prevent that.

Was that the abuse case you had in mind Ran, or were you considering 
some other kind of problem?
Yours,
Joel

On 9/17/2020 7:37 PM, R. Atkinson wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Sep 16, 2020, at 22:09, The IETF Trust <ietf-trust@ietf.org> wrote:
>> This proposed policy by the IETF Trustees is intended to clarify the situation by providing a formal declaration that the material is to be considered in the Public Domain as detailed in the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) declaration.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think it likely that such a formal declaration would cause people to believe
> that anyone can use OR allocate — any value (including values which are
> reserved or otherwise not yet formally assigned by IANA) for any purpose
> they wish.
> 
>  From a protocol interoperability perspective, it is important that the current
> situation where defined policies guide IANA and IANA controls what is in
> the IANA registries remain under IETF & IANA control.
> 
> The alternative to the current policy-driven IANA management of the IANA
> registries is likely to be chaos and increased non-interoperability.
> 
> It might be (not sure) that this concern could be resolved by some declaration
> other than CC0 or by adding additional words as an integral part of some
> declaration (to be written by Trust lawyers) in the style of CC0 but explicitly
> reserving IANA control over registry allocations (in accord with the various
> allocation policies which have been defined and will be defined in future).
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Ran
> 
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