Don, Adding a procedure describing how to obtain an Ethertype for IETF work seems reasonable to me as well.
Bob > On Nov 10, 2022, at 12:24 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e...@gmail.com> wrote: > > During the INTAREA WG meeting yesterday, there was a desire expressed > to include in the rfc7042bis draft an explicit process, from the IETF > side, for applying to the IEEE Registration Authority for an Ethertype > assignment. This seems pretty reasonable. The rfc7042bis draft does > include the IESG Statement requiring IESG approval before such > applications but does not make it clear just who talks to who inside > the IETF and who actually does the clerical work to apply to the IEEE > Registration Authority for an Ethertype assignment after IESG > approval. > > Thinking about this, it seems to me that you want one point person who > normally does the application process. This should be a position that > has low turnover so that the person in that position is likely to have > some experience doing this. The two possibilities that occur to me are > (1) the IETF 802.1 Liaison (currently Eric Gray) or (2) the Expert for > the IANA Informational Ethertype Registry (currently me). (I have been > through the Ethertype assignment process for an IETF protocol several > times.) > > The IESG Statement (see > https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/ethertypes/) > requires IESG approval and, as I recall, the last time this happened, > after the IESG had approved, the IESG was unclear on what to do next > but their first inclination was to tell IANA to do the application to > the IEEE Registration Authority. This seems natural as IANA is who you > would think of when it comes to assignments. And IANA maintains > contact with their registry experts. While this probably doesn't > matter at a practical level, considering the liaison alternative, the > IETF does not seems to currently have a liaison to IEEE 802.1 while > the IEEE Registration Authority is not at the IEEE 802.1 or the IEEE > 802 level but rather at the IEEE level . > > Any comments welcome but, based on the above, I'm inclined to draft > some text based on the point person doing the clerical work of > actually applying to the IEEE Registration Authority being the IANA > Ethertype Informational Registry expert (actual Registry name "IEEE > 802 Numbers"). Of course, whoever it is, they could have someone else > do it on their behalf in any particular instance but they would be > responsible to see that it gets done. > > Thanks, > Donald > =============================== > Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) > 2386 Panoramic Circle, Apopka, FL 32703 USA > d3e...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > Int-area@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
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