Re: 4395bis: inconsistent registration procedure

Hi Martin, I will create an issue in the tracker for this.

On 6/6/12 5:42 PM, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
> I agree with making mailing list review required.
> 
> Regards,   Martin.
> 
> P.S.: Peter, does this have an issue number? If not, can you create an
> issue, please?
> 
> On 2012/06/07 6:54, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>> * Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> <hat type='individual'/>
>>>
>>> Section 6.1 of 4395bis states:
>>>
>>>    The registration process is an optional mailing list
>>>    review, followed by "Expert Review".
>>>
>>> Yet Section 6.2 states:
>>>
>>>    Someone wishing to register a new URI/IRI scheme MUST [...]
>>>
>>>    3.  Send a copy of the template or a pointer to the containing
>>>        document (with specific reference to the section with the
>>>        template) to the mailing list uri-review@ietf.org, requesting
>>>        review.
>>>
>>> Is the mailing list review optional or mandatory?
>>
>> RFC 4395 had it somewhere inbetween, with the equivalent of 6.2 saying
>> the above is a SHOULD and I note that the "optional" is lowercase, which
>> I would have taken to mean expert reviewers would insist on mailing list
>> reviews for "important" and "possibly controversial" proposals, but in
>> some cases they might feel it's not really necessary, so given that the
>> SHOULD has already been turned into a MUST, I would think this is no
>> longer optional. Section 8 would also have to be fixed if the Working
>> Group agrees to require mailing list review.
> 

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