Re: Comments on draft-ietf-kitten-gssapi-extensions-iana-02.txt

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:27:10PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> --On Tuesday, March 25, 2008 04:32:40 PM +0000 Alexey Melnikov 
> <alexey.melnikov at isode.com> wrote:
> 
> >Indeed, "obsolete" is very useful. Adding an entry as experimental ("I
> >don't know if this is going to work, I might have to change the API later
> >on") might be useful as well.
> 
> Nope; it doesn't matter.  The purpose of the registry is to register use of 
> the name, not to serve as a development tracking database.  I suppose one 
> might define a whole taxonomy of interface stability designations and what 
> they mean, but really, an IANA registry is not the place for that.

Two minutes earlier you indicated that obsolete is fine.  I assume
that's still your view, but that you're arguing that for any other
interface stability attribute we should not record it in the
registration.  I agree.  Besides, the description field is free-form :)
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