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Re: IANA document

At 12:48 PM -0500 2/4/04, Michael Richardson wrote:
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"VPNC" == VPNC <Paul> writes: 
    >> Do you think there are adequate contingencies in place to prevent
    >> either of these?

    VPNC> Yes. If the expert does one of the above in a public fashion, people
    VPNC> will complain to the IESG and the IESG will either replace the
    VPNC> expert, decide they agree with the expert's personal reasons, or
    VPNC> decide they don't care. That's why making public all requests that
    VPNC> go to the expert and all responses they make to IANA is a Good
    VPNC> Thing.

  wouldn't just putting "IETF Consensus" be as good if that's what we really
want to occur?

No, because that causes the IESG to get involved for every single registration. They're already busy enough, and should only be bothered when there is a problem.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium