Ted, > To expand on this ever so slightly, the reason why things like this happen is > because the process for approving special-use allocations is perceived as too > heavyweight, so people don't bother to do it in anticipation of an experiment.
To be honest, I doubt this. It assumes folks who are developing these non-DNS protocols know/care about what the IETF thinks. > If we want to avoid future instances of squatting, it behooves us to avoid > applying too much process friction onto documents of this type. Granted, > it's hard to tell how much is too much, but this particular discussion was > kicked off in November of 2013, and here it is July of 2015, and we are still > talking about it. That's a pretty heavy process. I agree on the need for less friction, hence my interest in trying to find objective criteria. Lack of objective criteria pretty much guarantees the same sort of discussion and 'heavy process' you're complaining about. Regards, -drc
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