Last Call Review of draft-leiba-netmod-regpolicy-update-01
review-leiba-netmod-regpolicy-update-01-genart-lc-romascanu-2015-12-14-00

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Document: draft-leiba-netmod-regpolicy-update-01

Reviewer:  Dan Romascanu

Review Date: 12/14/15

IETF LC End Date: 12/21/15

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Summary: Almost Ready



A short, clear and useful document. There is however one issue that needs to be
clarified and may need edits before the document is approved.



Major issues:



The goal of the document is to relax the registration policy of the NETCONF
Capability URNs to allow for such allocations to be done via ‘certain
Experimental RFCs also, provided those specifications are carefully reviewed.’
The proposed
 action is to change the registration policy to “IETF Review” ‘which also
 allows registrations from certain well reviewed Experimental RFCs.”



The problem is that the “IETF Review” policy is not restricted to Experimental
RFCs which seems to be the motivation of the document. Informational RFCs can
also be subject to IETF Review for example. The IANA Considerations section
 does either instruct IANA to consider only Standards Track and Experimental
 RFCs. I believe that this needs to be clarified in Section 2, and the registry
 be marked “IETF Review – see [RFC XXXX]” so that people asking for allocation
 be directed to the clarification of the policy.



Minor issues:



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