Re: [weirds] Scope and guiding principles (was Re: I-D Action: draft-hollenbeck-dnrd-ap-query-00.txt)

[Eric Brunner-Williams <[e-mail]>]

On 5/4/12 9:04 AM, Dave Piscitello wrote:
> "There more like guidelines".

rfc954, page 1, paragraph 4:

"DCA requests that each individual with a directory on an ARPANET or
MILNET host, who is capable of passing traffic across the DoD
Internet, be registered in the NIC WHOIS Database.  MILNET TAC users
must be registered in the database."

the document was pre-upper-case-must, and the dca "request" was the
funding and contract managing agency. non-compliance was remarkably
rare, and due to policy constraints external to 954, use of
directories on hosts attached to nets 26 and 10 excited no interest in
civilian law and/or rights enforcements.

"guidelines" can't be standards track. a spec that substantively
narrows the existing, and reduces the necessity for new, divergence in
data models, access and authentication mechanisms, and data exchange
formats, in globally unique endpoint identifier registries may be
advisory (and obviously compelled by some contracting regime for some
set of registries), and it may also be required.

the latter may be preferable to the former, so long as it remains
broadly applicable and not marred by errors of restriction of
applicable scope.

-e