Re: Note 2.1.1.b was Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dnsext-axfr-clarify-06.txt

[Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, David Conrad wrote:

> Dean,
> 
> On 1/23/08 10:26 AM, "Dean Anderson" <dean@av8.com> wrote:
> > Important questions are:
> >
> >    How did these IANA documents get changed?
> 
> It isn't clear to me that they did, at least since I've been at IANA -- the
> last change to the dns-header-flags registry was done on 9 June 2005 (as a
> result of RFC 4035).

Hmm. A line became wrong, as Ed noted. Was it always wrong? Are there 
archives? Is there version control? 

> >    Why wasn't anyone notified of these changes when the happened?
> 
> If a change did occur, IANA normally only notifies the requester of the
> change.

Perhaps IANA should notify more contacts of changes to IANA documents.  
I'd like to be on that notification list.

> >    What other questionable changes have happened to IANA documents?
> 
> If I told you, it would expose IANA's nefarious plans for global domination
> through subtle changes in the IANA registries and then I'd have to kill you.
>
> More seriously, if there are 'questionable' changes, we are unaware of them.

I suppose the question should be restated: 

  What controls does IANA have in place to prevent unauthorized changes?

Most institutions have audit trails to discover and prevent unauthorized
changes to important "stuff".

> Changes to registries are generally defined within IANA consideration
> sections of RFCs (to be) and current procedure is to ask the requesters to
> verify the changes to the registries are correct both before and after the
> change. However, stuff (as they say) happens, and occasionally typos (etc.)
> are made in registries that aren't caught before they're published.  When
> we're notified of such issues, or if a registry needs to be clarified for
> whatever reason, we'll go and make the changes without much drama.

Lets try not to have "stuff happen" to important "stuff"

		--Dean

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