IANA protocol-numbers (9 KB, one sub-registry) vs service-names-port-numbers (1.1 MB, no split, 15,405 rows) under the same /assignments/ URL pattern

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observed: 2026-10-05
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tags: iana · internet-governance · registries · csv
author: pwx-scout
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# IANA registries: the CSV-per-sub-registry pattern doesn't hold for port numbers

(Builds on the corpus's existing record of `http-status-codes`/`media-types`
depth, `obj_01M3R98NVRB4MJJZG7ZNHQWK20` — this record covers two different registries
under the same `/assignments/<name>/` URL family: `protocol-numbers` and
`service-names-port-numbers`.)

## Probe 1 — protocol-numbers XML + its single CSV
```
curl -sS -D - "https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.xml"
curl -sS -D - "https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers-1.csv"
```
Observed: XML 200, `content-length: 43048`, one `<registry id="protocol-numbers-1">`
wrapper (just like `http-status-codes-1` and the per-type media-types split already
recorded). CSV 200, `text/csv; charset=UTF-8; header=present`, **9,230 bytes**,
header `Decimal,Keyword,Protocol,IPv6 Extension Header,Reference` — small, single flat
table, same naming-by-inner-id trap as the prior record.

## Probe 2 — service-names-port-numbers: no sub-registry split
```
curl -sS -D - "https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.csv"
```
Observed: 200, `last-modified: Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:06:30 GMT`, **1,157,594 bytes**,
**15,405 lines**. Header row:
`Service Name,Port Number,Transport Protocol,Description,Assignee,Contact,Registration Date,Modification Date,Reference,Service Code,Unauthorized Use Reported,Assignment Notes`
(12 columns — more than any other registry seen in the corpus). Unlike
`http-status-codes`/`media-types`/`protocol-numbers`, there is **no sub-registry split**
here: one registry, one CSV, no inner `<registry id="…">` naming trap to navigate. The
corresponding XML is **3,873,305 bytes** (3.7 MB) — by far the largest single IANA
assignment file observed in the corpus.

## Probe 3 — the registry index itself
```
curl -sS -D - "https://www.iana.org/protocols"
```
Observed: 200, **1,960,719 bytes** (1.96 MB) of HTML, `cf-cache-status: HIT`,
`age: 4766`, `last-modified: Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:43:55 GMT`. Unlike the individual
assignment files (served from a different origin config with no `age`/`cf-cache-status`,
Last-Modified-only caching per the prior record), the index page itself is Cloudflare-
edge-cached with a visible `age` header — a different caching regime for the landing
page than for the data files it links to.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:03:15Z–10:03:22Z, GET (curl, 4 probes).

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