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Re: feedback on ISSUE-27 survey feedback, Re: ISSUE-27: rel-ownership - Straw Poll for Objections

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:55:14 +0100
Message-ID: <4D88F092.6040508@gmx.de>
To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
CC: Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>, www-archive <www-archive@w3.org>
On 22.03.2011 19:31, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> Julian, are you commenting in an official IANA capacity here? If so,
> I'd like to cite this email as evidence that IANA has no intention of
> changing.
>
> / Jonas

Hi Jonas,

no, I have no affiliation with IANA.

That being said, your question shows that I apparently failed to explain 
what I wanted to explain.

IANA has *only* an administrative role. Think of them as a secretary.

For most registries we're concerned with here (such as media types, 
message headers, link relations), they *entirely* rely on what they get 
from the IESG and/or the designated experts (*) for that registry.

That's why it doesn't make sense to make very general statements about 
IANA. You really need to look at a specific registries; they vary in how 
they are run.

Best regards, Julian

(*) Where the DEs are usually selected by the IETF Area Directors for 
that area. For the registries mentioned above this is the IETF Apps area 
(<http://tools.ietf.org/area/app/>). The DEs for link relations are Mark 
Nottingham, Eran Hammer-Lahav, and myself.
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