Re: [urn] Formal request for URN for ITU

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

--On Thursday, July 5, 2018 17:44 +0000 Scott Mansfield
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> Thanks John,
> 
> Exactly right on your points below.  I don't want to get into
> hypotheticals and I was trying to point out what is driving
> the ITU's request.  I like your point about providing some
> text that will ensure the ITU considers the impact of
> expanding the use of the namespace outside of the current
> known use-cases.
> 
> This is something I will have the ITU capture in an update to
> their internal document that the request points to.  There are
> a couple of updates already needed to that document.

And _that_ is, IMO, exactly where it should be... part of their
internal norms for how the namespace is managed rather than
promises they make to IANA or the IETF.   Even if there were no
other reasons, if someone in the ITU structure (either volunteer
or staff) comes along in a few years and starts thinking about
new sub-namespaces, we can be rather confident that document
will be consulted while I would be fairly pessimistic about
consultation of the IANA site (at least before a pointer to it
was found in that document).

> This will raise awareness in the ITU, and provide a pointer
> for others to see that the ITU will consider impacts when the
> use of the namespace grows.

Exactly.
Thanks
    john