[core] Benjamin Kaduk's No Objection on draft-ietf-core-senml-versions-03: (with COMMENT)

[Benjamin Kaduk via Datatracker <[e-mail]>]

Benjamin Kaduk has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-core-senml-versions-03: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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Thanks, this is nicely written and a reasonable approach.

Section 3

I think I'm supposed to interpret this as being "the exact bit pattern
1010 in the last four bits indicates support for the base SenML version
defined in RFC 8428; any other bitstring in that position cannot be
taken as an indication of support for the base version".  In other
words, we're still getting a one-bit signal, just encoded in four bits.
Is that right?  Or maybe just "it's an error to see any other values for
those four bits"?  (If so, do we reject the entire pack?)

Section 5

I'd consider adding a sentence "the assignment of new feature bits is
done in a backwards-compatible manner, so existing implementations will
not erroneously assume support for a version (feature) that is defined
in the future" in the vein of an avoided security consideration.