Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram-02

[Simon Josefsson <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@xxxxxxx> writes:

> --On Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:05:26 AM +0200 Simon Josefsson
> <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> The IANA section says:
>>
>>    IANA is requested to prevent future registrations of SASL mechanisms
>>    starting with SCRAM- without consulting the SASL mailing list
>>    <ietf-sasl@xxxxxxx> first.
>>
>> I'm not sure how the IANA would parse this request.  Who on this list
>> has authority to say yes or no to IANA?  For clarity, I think we should
>> use one of the terms defined by RFC 2434.  Is this IETF Consensus?  Or
>> Expert Review?  Or Standards Action?
>
> I'm pretty sure it's Expert Review with a mailing list as the expert.

I see.  I didn't know an open mailing list could be a Designated Expert.

> But given the agreement we seemed to have during yesterday's meeting
> that this family should have slow growth accommodating only successor
> hashes, I think Standards Action would be more appropriate.

Works fine with me.

/Simon