Whoops, apologies, the previous reply was in my Drafts and I hit send on
the wrong version. <blush>

I will ask the IANA to update the reference to be RFC4340, and include a
link to this thread.

W




On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 1:27 PM, Warren Kumari <war...@kumari.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 7:51 PM, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
>
>> It appears that Paul Wouters <p...@nohats.ca> said:
>>
>> Section 4.1.2. says:
>>           | URI        | _dccp                 | [RFC7566]     |
>>
>> I think this might have been part of a list used to "reserve" the names
>> of (transport) protocols, so that constructs like _25._quic.example.com
>> could be constructed where the _name denotes the protocol and not the name
>> of something. I think dccp got added to this list because it is references
>> as a "transport protocol" in RFC4340 and the author wanted to make sure
>> transport protocol names were not accidentally squatted by newly invented
>> things with a clashing name/acronym.
>>
>> I think I'm the one who added it and that was definitely the idea. You
>> should be able to use SRV or URI with any transport protocol so in view of
>> the modest set of transport protocols in use, we might as well reserve
>> their names. Dunno where that RFC number came from, though.
>>
>
>
> Okey donkey —I think that the best outcome then is to do what Dave
> suggested above — "leave the registration but take out the reference.".
>
> I'd love to be able to ask IANA to make the reference be "Because, well,
> we felt like it….",  but I'm trying to at least pretend to be a grownup, so
> I won't…
>
> W
>
>
>
>> R's,
>> John
>>
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