Re: online signing draft

"Niall O'Reilly" <niall.oreilly@ucd.ie> Tue, 16 November 2004 17:11 UTC

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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:08:55 +0000
From: Niall O'Reilly <niall.oreilly@ucd.ie>
Subject: Re: online signing draft
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On 11 Nov 2004, at 09:54, Geoffrey Sisson wrote:

> Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Samuel Weiler wrote:
>>
>>> Better Increment & Decrement Functions
>>
>> Geoff and I have been working on a rigorous definition of these, 
>> which I
>> hope he'll post later today.
>
> Now available at:
>
>     http://www.panix.com/~geoff/draft-sisson-dnsext-dns-name-p-s-00.txt

in which may be found the following text.

>    3.  If the least significant (right-most) octet in the least
>        significant (left-most) label is the minimum sort value, remove
>        that octet; otherwise decrement the value of the octet, skipping
>        any values which correspond to upper-case US-ASCII letters, and
>        then append the label with as many octets as possible of the
>        maximum sort value.  In either case, continue to the next step.

I think there's one other special character you have to guard against!

>        ... skipping
>        any values which correspond either to upper-case US-ASCII 
> letters
>        or to the dot (\056), and ...

/Niall



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