On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 11:48 AM Brian E Carpenter
<brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12-Dec-24 02:27, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> > On 2024-12-11, at 13:56, Eliot Lear <l...@lear.ch> wrote:
> >>
> >> For what it's worth, I have far less of a problem with IANA assignments to 
> >> drafts than I do with drafts not being considered working documents.
> >
> > I believe the magical solution to all this is:
> >
> > Make no changes.
> >
> > The way things are arranged here kind of works, even if ugly in come 
> > corners, and nobody has yet come up with a proposed change that would 
> > actually improve the outcome.
>
> I believe that's correct (and I suspect that Mike StJohns's description is 
> pretty much accurate) but the fact remains that "the way things are arranged 
> here" is *different* from what is described in our founding process document. 
> And it's just weird that we don't update that document to formally permit 
> what we actually do.

I think this is built around a misunderstanding of early assignment.
Or maybe I misunderstand. Early assignment happens when changes to the
wireformat would be deeply unlucky, but the text may still be
developed. And so having the pointer to an I-D that is going through
the process to become an RFC is fine.

>
> See 
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/rfc-interest/XJk2nBsWS08hth8FBl0eaQOe7m8/
>
>      Brian
>
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