I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed by the IESG for the IETF Chair. Please treat these comments just like any other last call comments. For more information, please see the FAQ at . Document: draft-bbf-bbf-urn-02 Uniform Resource Name (URN) Namespaces for Broadband Forum Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 14-October-2016 IETF LC End Date: 4-November-2016 IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document is almost ready for publication as an Informational RFC. Major issues: RFC 3406 states that the namespace considerations section should indicate why a new namespace is needed. While this is pretty obvious, the text does not actually say anything in that section to explain it. In particular, I would expect that section to explain why 3 NIDs are needed rather than just 1. Minor issues: The template in RFC 3406 indicates the the section in each NID on the Process of identifier assignment should "detail the mechanism and or authorities for assigning URNs to resources." The draft simply says that the BBF will provide procedures. Do those procedures exist? If not, there seems to be a minor problem. If they do exist, it would seem sensible to include a pointer to the place where the BBF publicly documents those procedures, so that people using this information who might want to register something can understand what the rules and expectations are. (I realize that the RFC 6289 example this is based on did not include such a pointer, which is why I am making this a minor comment instead of a major one.) Nits/editorial comments: