Re: IANA document

["Scott G. Kelly" <scott@airespace.com>]

Hi Paul,

I guess I'm concerned about two eventualities: (1) the expert, perhaps 
for personal reasons, treats one person's request differently than 
another's, or (2) the expert, perhaps due to a personal opinion, refuses 
to allow something that other "experts" view as a good idea. Do you 
think there are adequate contingencies in place to prevent either of these?

Of course, we all believe that if we were the designated expert, such a 
thing would never occur. But we are all human, so maybe it could at 
that. I guess that so long as there is some sort of reliable appeal 
process for such cases, that addresses my concern to some extent.

Scott



Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote:
> At 12:27 PM -0800 2/3/04, Scott G. Kelly wrote:
> 
>> Michael Richardson wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I think that the consensus of the WG list is that all values should
>>> be a consistent "Expert Review". Please disagree.
>>
>>
>> As you wish :-)  This is a difficult question, but given that the IETF 
>> is a political organization, effectively concentrating this power in 
>> one individual seems inappropriate.
> 
> 
> The person is appointed by the IESG. They can be replaced at any time.
> 
>> Personally, I liked the summary of allocation policies you first 
>> suggested, and thought your rationale was well founded. I think Jari 
>> raised some reasonable questions, but I don't think a case was made 
>> for giving the whole kit and kaboodle over to a benevolent dictator.
> 
> 
> These are assignments to IANA, not protocol additions.
> 
>> There is much to be said for public review and consensus.
> 
> 
> Exactly right. It is quite reasonable for the IPsec community to ask the 
> IESG to make sure that the IKEv2 IANA reviewer does everything in 
> public, and even asks for comments on each action. This is a trivial 
> task (mailing lists and web sites, you know), and would  certainly make 
> it so that if the reviewer said "no" to something, people who cared 
> would know immediately to talk to the IESG.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium