[rfc-i] Proper way to include examples with yet-to-be-assigned values?

[Joe Touch]

On 8/13/2010 11:04 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:
...
> If I understood Paul's example
> (<http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-hoffman-dnssec-ecdsa-03.txt>) correctly,
> there are examples where the to-be-assigned code points need to appear
> as numbers, so TBD wouldn't work there.

They wouldn't make sense as valid DNS entries until they were numbers, 
but they could easily have appeared as [TBD-alg-a-id], [TBD-alg-b-id], etc.

I don't see a good reason that numbers *needed* to appear as numeric 
values, even in the example given. Regardless, though, so long as the 
author is tracking and correcting this - and explains it when making the 
AUTH48 responses - a more explicit, standard mechanism doesn't seem 
necessary AFAICT.

Joe