- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:55:14 +0100
- 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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