Re: Comments on draft-ietf-kitten-gssapi-extensions-iana-02.txt

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>]

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:

> --On Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:36:09 AM +0000 Alexey Melnikov 
> <alexey.melnikov at isode.com> wrote:
>
>> Nicolas Williams wrote:
>>
>>>>>  | Status         | 'Standards-Track',         | Status of 
>>>>> the       |
>>>>>  |                | 'Informational',           | 
>>>>> registration.       |
>>>>>  |                | 'Experimental',            
>>>>> |                     |
>>>>>  |                | 'Obsolete', 'Other'        
>>>>> |                     |
>>>>
>>>> I think you need to be more specific about what the status is. Is it
>>>> status of the document defining the namespace registration? Or of the
>>>> registration itself?
>>>
>>> The description already answers that :)
>>
>> Well, in this case you need to define what
>> 'Standards-Track','Informational', 'Experimental', 'Obsolete' and
>> 'Other' mean.
>> Including who determines the relevant status. With document status it is
>> simple. With registrations that can be submitted in email, or be
>> described in anything other than RFC, this is not clear.
>
> What is the purpose of assigning such a status to a registration, 
> separate from that of the specification for the registered extension?

A registration can be specified in a non IETF document. If we don't want 
to allow for that, then there is no practical difference.

_______________________________________________
Kitten mailing list
Kitten at ietf.org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/kitten