- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:21:25 -0400
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>, "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: > The reason is that it makes managing the registry less centralized. As in, > everyone can easily propose something new that is then subject to community > review on whether it will be endorsed or unendorsed. That reads like a description of the role of IANA. Only IANA's process - which uses the IETF RFC process - has been vetted through decades of use by the Internet community. I love Wikis, and wish access to IANA's registries was more Wiki-like, but the technology choices backing automated access to a registry make up a negligible fraction of its value. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
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