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Document: draft-hodges-webauthn-registries-05
Reviewer: Paul Kyzivat
Review Date: 2020-04-13
IETF LC End Date: 2020-04-29
IESG Telechat date: ?
Summary:
This draft is on the right track but has open issues, described in the
review.
Issue: Additional registry fields defined by experts
Section 2 specifies that experts are allowed to define additional fields
to be collected in the registry. It isn't clear to me how this is
intended to work, or could work. Some concerns that come to mind are:
* Is this on a per-registration basis? Once a new field has been
requested, must that field be retroactively added to all preexisting
registrations and all future entries in the registry?
* How will someone who is consulting the registry discover the meaning
of the new fields?
* Does IANA have procedures to handle this sort of modification to the
registries?
ISTM that the "Notes" field can already be used for extra
format-specific data. Adding additional fields that apply to all entries
would be better served by a formal revision to the registry.
If you really want to preserve this ability for experts to add fields
then you need to specify in great detail how this is to work, and verify
with IANA that it is feasible.
Otherwise the document seems ready to go.
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