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Re: [dhcwg] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-dhc-rfc3315bis-10: (with COMMENT)

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Tue, 23 January 2018 03:50 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:49:14 -0800
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-dhc-rfc3315bis-10: (with COMMENT)
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 7:43 PM, Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:

> On Jan 22, 2018, at 9:56 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
>
> The benefit is that you have a pile of different mechanisms which are
> redundant. This would simplkify that.
>
>
> Except that this is a -bis document, so the mechanisms don't go away with
> this optimization, and the optimization itself is actually more work than
> doing what the document currently specifies, since the server doesn't care
> which option you pick, and the client is going to pick exactly one.
>

Well, maybe. It allows you to encode something fixed-length, even if you
derive it from something variable length.

-Ekr

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