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Re: [lemonade] WGLC draft-ietf-lemonade-compress-02.txt
At 8:15 PM -0700 7/28/06, Mark Crispin wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Philip Guenther wrote:
I don't think we expect to see future THREAD mechanisms either,
but it's apparently simpler and less contentious to create a
registry than it is to _not_ do so. As author/editor/review time
is the most precious commodity in the IETF, creating the registry
and copying text to do so that people have already nodded their
heads at seem like the most efficient choice.
I get a bit queasy at the thought of IANA registry pollution
(creating useless registries) just because it is easier for us to do
that than to include a sentence in the document as to why one isn't
needed.
IANA is trying to speed up its response times. Adding useless work hurts that.
Excellent point.
It's also important to note that creating a registry is a great way
to prevent bad ideas from getting into a protocol. If you don't
have a registry, then everybody who thinks that he has a Very
Important Idea will fillibuster the specification until the bad
idea is added to the specification. With a registry, the people
with VIIs have an outlet, but then have to make the VII stand on
its own (which few VIIs will actually accomplish).
Perhaps I'm naive, but I think we can block bad ideas from being
added to our document just as easily (in fact, more easily) as we can
block them as stand-alone additions to an IANA registry.
--
Randall Gellens
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