Re: [dnsext] IANA DNS params registry typo w.r.t. label types

[Michelle Cotton <michelle.cotton@icann.org>]

Title: Re: [dnsext] IANA DNS params registry typo w.r.t. label types

Yes... IANA would be grateful for any appropriate corrections.

Thank you Rob.

Michelle Cotton
IANA


On 12/15/08 12:54 PM, "Rob Austein" <sra@isc.org> wrote:

> > From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:11:39 -0800
> >
> > Registry Name: DNS Label types
> > Reference: [RFC5001]
> > Registration Procedures: IETF standards action
> >
> > But RFC5001 doesn't even have the word "label" in it, and its IANA
> > considerations section only mentions the allocation of an EDNS
> > option code (3).
>
> Michelle can confirm or deny this, but as I understand it the
> "reference" tags in IANA registries sometimes refers to the document
> that last caused an update, whether the document in question actually
> mentioned the registry in question or not.  That is, sometimes it's
> less of a "reference" in the normal sense and more of a "fingerprint".
> Several nitpicky errors discovered during publication of RFC 5001
> caused IANA to conduct its last cleanup of several EDNS-related
> registries, thus RFC 5001's fingerprint ended up on those registries.
>
> I don't claim that this makes sense, exactly, but it appears to be
> what what happens.  If someone wants to go through all of the DNS
> parameter registries, check all the references, and suggest
> corrections where appropriate, I'm sure IANA would be grateful.