Re: [weirds] I-D Action: draft-blanchet-weirds-bootstrap-ianaregistries-00.txt

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>> The "local table or file" has to come from somewhere. And the right place is IANA registry.  So
>the specification should tell you where to get the data. The implementation may decide to fetch it
>more or less frequently, such as software updates or more frequently. THis is implementation
>choice.  So the whole point of using the IANA registry is to ensure that everybody is taking the
>right source of information at the right place.
>
>That's fine so long as we also make it abundantly clear that the bootstrap 
>information changes very slowly so that clients MUST NOT fetch it on every 
>run and SHOULD NOT fetch it every day, or even every week or every month.

It occurs to me that this is like the bootstrap file in your DNS
cache.  The authoritative copy comes from IANA, but it changes very
slowly, and the penalty for being slightly out of date is low, so you
don't need to be able to update it automatically.

R's,
John