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Re: [TLS] Request to register value in TLS extension registry

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 03 October 2018 06:17 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Benjamin Kaduk <bkaduk@akamai.com>
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[CC'd back to the TLS list because this affects other TLS work as well]

Benjamin Kaduk <bkaduk@akamai.com> writes:

>Having looked a bit harder, it seems that perhaps I need to point out that,
>if you want IANA to allocate a value, you need to *ask IANA for it*.  The
>tls-reg-review@ietf.org list is not a supported IANA entrypoint;

That's not what the RFC appears to say:

   Specification Required [RFC8126] registry requests are registered
   after a three-week review period on the <tls-reg-review@ietf.org>
   mailing list, on the advice of one or more designated experts.

   [...]

   Registration requests sent to the mailing list for review SHOULD use
   an appropriate subject (e.g., "Request to register value in TLS bar
   registry").

This is exactly what I did, I sent a registration request to the list for
review.

   Within the review period, the designated experts will either approve
   or deny the registration request, communicating this decision to the
   review list and IANA.

This never happened.

Did anyone actually test RFC 8447 before it was published?  You send a request
to a mailing list that doesn't seem to work, to be reviewed by a secret panel
(well, we know that Rich Salz is one member :-), with no public discussion or
list archives you can examine to see what happened, and in my case no response
to the registration request submitted as per the RFC.

Peter.

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