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

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>]

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 agree that the primary purpose it to register use of names.

> 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.

Why not? :-)

Ok, I am actually fine with just having the obsolete flag in the registry.

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