%% You should probably cite draft-wilde-registries-03 instead of this revision. @techreport{wilde-registries-00, number = {draft-wilde-registries-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wilde-registries/00/}, author = {Erik Wilde}, title = {{The Use of Registries}}, pagetotal = 11, year = 2016, month = feb, day = 2, abstract = {Registries on the Internet and the Web fulfill a wide range of tasks, ranging from low-level networking aspects such as packet type identifiers, all the way to application-level protocols and standards. This document summarizes some of the reasons of why and how to use registries, and how some of them are operated. It serves as a informative reference for specification writers considering whether to create and manage a registry, allowing them to better understand some of the issues associated with certain design discussions.}, }