<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1w7tezshngplj3fd8r9twxv6zujrwaxq7v98q6t4rdhd0y7u2tfnsmwj55c</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1w7tezshngplj3fd8r9twxv6zujrwaxq7v98q6t4rdhd0y7u2tfnsmwj55c</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2012-11-27&#xA;📝 Original message:&gt;&gt; We are not establishing an IETF working group, which is an option that&#xA;&gt;&gt; was explored prior to the Paris meeting and has been sidelined at&#xA;&gt;&gt; present for depth-of-bureaucracy by the backing commercial entities.&#xA;&gt;&gt; Rather, we are establishing a top-level IANA registry group. This is&#xA;&gt;&gt; not anticipated by the IETF old-guard working with us to be either (a)&#xA;&gt;&gt; controversial or (b) possible to block.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; My last note in this sub-thread.&#xA;&#xA;Mine too!&#xA;&#xA;&gt; There are no IANA registry groups, there is no such thing, and no way&#xA;&gt; to form one.&#xA;&#xA;Reading between the lines, I believe this phrase, which is not my own&#xA;but that of experienced IETF staff, refers to the groups visible at&#xA;http://www.iana.org/protocols/ (which you yourself cited). Whether it&#xA;is formally used or not is unknown to me.&#xA;&#xA;&gt; The IETF can ask the IANA to form a registry but these&#xA;&gt; things take lots of support and take a long time,&#xA;&#xA;Expert opinion estimates six weeks, and by current estimates, we&#xA;should have an arrival circa February.&#xA;&#xA;&gt; and these are only&#xA;&gt; created through standards track RFC. ICANN runs the IANA and there is&#xA;&gt; no such framework that you elude to. Review&#xA;&gt; http://www.iana.org/protocols/&#xA;&#xA;I would like to suggest that perhaps exactly this sort of banter is an&#xA;excellent illustration for the Bitcoin community of what we have been&#xA;up against in this (conceivable simple an public benefit oriented)&#xA;endeavour. If you also look at the fact that the ISO4217 registry (to&#xA;take currency/commodity codes as just one example) there is apparently&#xA;not even a public list of requirements for codepoint issue.  This sort&#xA;of thing is *exactly* why the internet community appears to&#xA;desperately need an open registry - allowing public internet bodies&#xA;(IANA) to function to support innovation and interconnectivity for all&#xA;sectors of the internet&#39;s various financial communities so that&#xA;anyone, including innovators, can obtain interoperability via simple,&#xA;hassle-free paths, without encountering self-important bureaucrats.&#xA;&#xA;We anticipate victory circa February.&#xA;&#xA;- Walter</html></oembed>