Re: [Acme] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC9115 (7336)

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

This is hilarious — the errata reporting form apparently ate my double backslashes.

Here is the corrected Corrected Text:

  oid = text .regexp "([0-2])((\\.0)|(\\.[1-9][0-9]*))*”

And here is how I would write this, having been bitten by backslashes in RFCs before:

  oid = text .regexp "([0-2])(([.]0)|([.][1-9][0-9]*))*”

(Actually, I would write this:

  oid = text .regexp "[0-2]([.](0|([1-9][0-9]*)))*”

…but this is a style issue.)

Grüße, Carsten


> On 2023-02-07, at 00:35, RFC Errata System <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC9115,
> "An Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Profile for Generating Delegated Certificates".
> 
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> You may review the report below and at:
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid7336
> 
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>
> 
> Section: Appendix A
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
>   oid = text .regexp "([0-2])((\.0)|(\.[1-9][0-9]*))*"
> 
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
>   oid = text .regexp "([0-2])((\.0)|(\.[1-9][0-9]*))*"
> 
> 
> Notes
> -----
> Backslashes need to be doubled in CDDL strings (as they are done in Appendix B).
> 
> An alternative fix would be to replace \. by [.]
> 
> Note that the equivalent fix is not required for
> 
>   regtext = text .regexp "([^\*].*)|([\*][^\*].*)|([\*][\*].+)"
> 
> as the fact that the single backslashes have no effect is irrelevant here — the backslashes are not needed in the character classes [...].
> As an editorial enhancement, the backslashes could be entirely removed from this line.
> 
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC9115 (draft-ietf-acme-star-delegation-09)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : An Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Profile for Generating Delegated Certificates
> Publication Date    : September 2021
> Author(s)           : Y. Sheffer, D. López, A. Pastor Perales, T. Fossati
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Automated Certificate Management Environment
> Area                : Security
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG