On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 6:33 AM Paul Wouters <p...@nohats.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Mar 2022, Ben Schwartz wrote:
>
> > This leaves us with several possible options:
> > 1. Change the MUST to SHOULD, or otherwise indicate that IANA is not
> expected to enforce anything about the contents of the format
> > reference.  Registrations might appear without a suitable format
> reference, resulting in keys that are difficult to parse and
> > serialize interoperably (e.g. same zone file produces different results
> in different authoritative server implementations).
> > 2. Change the registration policy to Expert Review, relying on the
> designated expert to enforce this rule.  Registrations might be
> > processed more slowly.
> > 3. Change the registration policy to Specification Required.  This is
> similar to #2 but incorporates formal guidance about what kinds
> > of documents qualify as a "specification" (e.g. must be "permanent and
> readily available").  Note that this is not "RFC Required":
> > any individual I-D is considered a qualified specification as soon as
> it is uploaded to the Datatracker.
>
> I favour #2, especially as this intersects the DNS protocol with other
> protocols, and those requesting SVCB might not be DNS experts. Having
> a DNS expert to verify things make sense seems good. Although I would
> hope the Expert would also want a Specification Required as their
> input.
>

Note that Specification Required is a superset of Expert Review: "This
policy is the same as Expert Review, with the additional requirement of a
formal public specification." (
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8126#section-4.6)

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