Re: Issue with RFC4880 IANA Registrations

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:17:12PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:

> There seems to be a disconnect between these two sections.  My reading
> of 10.2.2.1 is that there's a registry of the notation names, of which
> there don't appear to be any defined in 5.2.3.16.

Yes.  An existing, but currently empty registry.

> However there doesn't appear to be a registry of the "flags", of
> which there IS a single entry (0x80) defined in 5.2.3.16.

Yes.

> So did we miss a needed registry or Notation Data Flags?  Or are the
> labels in 10.2.2.1 just not the same as the labels in 5.2.3.16 and the
> label disconnect is causing confusion?

My take is that, yes, we're missing a registry for the flags.  I
believe it should be an IETF CONSENSUS registry.

David