Re: [weirds] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-ietf-weirds-bootstrap-11.txt

[Andrew Sullivan <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:47:13AM -0600, Pete Resnick wrote:
> enough to keep things separate and, more importantly, (b) I repeatedly
> brought this document to the attention of the IAB IANA Evolution Program and
> no concerns were expressed. 

I read the document more than once, both with my WG participant hat on
and as a member of the IANA evolution program, and I guess I don't see
what the problem is, given the WG's decision to go this way.

That is, I _always_ thought using an IANA registry for bootstrapping
was silly, and I always thought that we have a perfectly good
mechanism in the DNS to deliver this sort of answer.  But given how
far in the rough I was, I couldn't see what else to do.  Moreover,
staff from the current IANA operator was in the room and not objecting
when this issue was raised (and is presumably still on the list).

But it seems to me that what the document is outlining is an
admittedly-unusual update mechanism for the registry.  It surprises me
somewhat that IANA in its review did not ask, "How are we supposed to
do this?"  But if they know, then I can't see what the problem is.

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