IANA actions and tables document

Patrik Fältström patrik at frobbit.se
Fri Dec 12 14:53:56 CET 2008


On 12 dec 2008, at 09.52, Martin Duerst wrote:

> With "UNTIL we have added the first codepoint to that list", do you
> mean that that RFC would not only instruct IANA to add that codepoint,
> but also contain the instruction for automatic updating in the future?

Possibly, yes.

> Why would we have to wait for the first actual case to do that?

Because we do not have any specific case to discuss, so most of this  
discussion is hypothetical.

> (note that there are other IANA registries that are empty, e.g.
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-tag-extensions-registry)

Absolutely. And there are those that required IETF review from the  
beginning and then later more relaxed rules (expert review for example).

    paf



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