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Re: [Dime] error in IANA allocations for RFC 5447 (attributes 124 and 125)

Denis Ovsienko <denis@ovsienko.info> Mon, 13 August 2018 21:28 UTC

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From: Denis Ovsienko <denis@ovsienko.info>
To: Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>, dime <dime@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [Dime] error in IANA allocations for RFC 5447 (attributes 124 and 125)
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 ---- On Mon, 06 Aug 2018 13:59:39 +0100 Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote ---- 
[...]
 >  In the end, I think that the incorrect IANA allocations were a result of the updates done in RFC 8044.  The early drafts had a table which updated all of the IANA data types, e.g.: 
 >  
 > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-radext-datatypes-05#section-4.2 
 >  
 >   The MIP6 attributes are listed there as "ipv6prefix" and "string".  As the author of RFC 8044, I think that's my mistake.  Updating hundreds of attributes required reading many RFCs, and it's understandable that a few mistakes were made. 
[...]

Everybody makes mistakes. Not everybody has the capability to admit and put it right. Well done.

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    Denis Ovsienko

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