Change Controller

[Julian Reschke]

Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2009/11/17 19:41, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Martin J. Dürst wrote:
>>> Hello Julian,
>>>
>>> A tiny bit more of context in your mail would have been helpful.
>>> Apparently, you are talking about updates for the types text/html and
>>> application/xhtml+xml, which may be sent to this list in the future.
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>>> As for your specific concern below, these registrations go through
>>> IESG approval, so it would be the IESG who has to figure out whom to
>>> believe in the case of a conflict, not IANA.
>>> ...
>>
>> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288#section-9>:
>>
>> The owner of a media type may pass responsibility to another person
>> or agency by informing the IANA and the ietf-types list; this can be
>> done without discussion or review.
>>
>> So it appears that just changing the change controller does not require
>> IESG approval (HTML5 does more than that; I'm just trying to understand
>> the procedure in cases where *just* the ownership changed).
> 
> Immediately afterwards, it says:
> 
>    The IESG may reassign responsibility for a media type.  The most
>    common case of this will be to enable changes to be made to types
>    where the author of the registration has died, moved out of contact
>    or is otherwise unable to make changes that are important to the
>    community.
> 
> So if e.g. the WhatWG went havoc and unilaterally sent the IANA a change 
> request to be the only owner of text/html, the IESG could simply 
> reassing it back to W3C (or vice versa).

What if one of the change controllers did send a change request *not* 
changing the ownership, but something else. Would IANA confirm with 
other parties listed as change controller?

> ...

BR, Julian