Re: [lemonade] Re: WGLC compress-02 IANA registry

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt at gulbrandsen.priv.no>]

Thinking about it again:

If I create a registry, the IANA has to do that. If I modify 
comp-meth-tls, the IANA has to do that. Seems about the same, with 
modification perhaps a touch more work since it's less routine. If I 
don't create a registry, the IANA needs to do nothing now, but the 
result is different from several other IMAP extensions (SORT and THREAD 
notably), which is arguably inferior. (Yes, I know I'm a bit fascist 
about this consistency thing.)

For each new algorithm, which I fervently hope never happens, the IANA 
has to add an antry to one registry. Either to imap4-capabilities, 
comp-meth-tls or comp-meth-imap. Seems the same.

So I think it doesn't really make a difference for the IANA.

I hear a couple of people wanting a registry and a couple not. I can't 
confidently say one side is stronger. I've set the reply-to field on 
this message to emulate a hum, so if everyone with an opinion can just 
check one, I can make a quick -04 revision if needed:

 [ ] hum for piggybacking on imap4-capabilities using 
"COMPRESS=<algorithm>" entries, like -02 revision

 [ ] hum for new registry, like -03 revision, and like SORT/THREAD

 [ ] hum for modifying and using comp-meth-tls registry, without 
precedent AFAIK

Arnt

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