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

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

>> I agree with John. I think it is better to use a local table or file for
>> numbers bootstrap and update when necessary. We've already adopted this
>> method.
>
> 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.

R's,
John