RE: URI registration process.

At 3:19 PM -0800 1/3/05, McDonald, Ira wrote:
>Hi Chris,
>
>The RFC queue delay in publication is currently somewhere between
>8 and 16 months.  And last call and IESG decision is several more
>months.
>
>For this calendar year (2005), RFC 2717 is the URI registration
>process, for better or worse.

FWIW, a document becomes a standard when the IESG says so, not when 
it is published as an RFC. If the IESG blesses 
draft-hansen-2717bis-2718bis-uri-guidelines, the new guidelines could 
take effect as soon as IANA can change its policy; the IESG can ask 
for that to be expedited as well.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium

Received on Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:54:08 UTC