Re: [core] Is ct an occur once attribute

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 07 August 2017 06:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [core] Is ct an occur once attribute
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Hi Jim,

On Aug 7, 2017, at 01:19, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:
> 
> I was expecting to see "ct" as being defined to only occur once, however
> looking at section 7.2.1 of RFC 7252 there is no such statement.
> 
> Is this something that was intended or is it a missing statement in the
> document.  It does say that it allows or space separated values, and other
> attributes such as "rt" do make the only occur once statement.

Good catch.  I believe the lack of this statement is an oversight; ct is intended to be an occur-once link target attribute.

Grüße, Carsten