Re: IANA Registration Requirements for Status Codes and Method Names

+1, I think.

AFAIK there isn't any advice to do this for documents that establish  
registries (e.g., in RFC5226).


On 03/06/2009, at 8:26 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in Part 2 we currently state for both:
>
> "Any document registering new method names should be traceable  
> through statuses of either 'Obsoletes' or 'Updates' to this document."
>
> I think we inherited that from RFC2817, Section 7.1. (<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2817#section-7.1 
> >)
>
> IMHO this doesn't make sense; the "updates" relation shouldn't be  
> used just because a specification uses a well-defined extension  
> point that already has a registry.
>
> Proposal: remove the requirement from sections 2.1 (method names)  
> and 4.1 (status codes).
>
> BR, Julian
>


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