Re: [Gen-art] [kitten] Genart telechat review of draft-ietf-kitten-rfc5653bis-06

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Wed, 07 February 2018 22:58 UTC

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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:57:56 -0600
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Weijun Wang <weijun.wang@oracle.com>, draft-ietf-kitten-rfc5653bis.all@ietf.org, kitten <kitten@ietf.org>, gen-art <gen-art@ietf.org>, "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>, Alissa Cooper <alissa@cooperw.in>
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Subject: Re: [Gen-art] [kitten] Genart telechat review of draft-ietf-kitten-rfc5653bis-06
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 05:43:58PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On 02/07/2018 04:32 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:> Line 2519, I think should
[line 2519]
> --> SHOULD, since elsewhere we use SHOULD
> > for sending the error token to the peer.
> 
> No opinion.  You could make a case for "that should be sent" being
> either descriptive on the token or prescriptive on the application.

Re-reading, I agree with you and retract the suggestion.

> > Line 2561, I could go either way on "may" vs. "MAY" -- the argument
> > for the former would be that it's just stating an attribute of the
> > operation, and this text is describing something specified elsewhere
> > and not introducing any restrictions or giving guidance on it.
> > Similarly for acceptSecContext on line 2597.
> 
> I think that's a MAY.  It seems prescriptive on the method implementation.

Okay.

> > Line 2668, SHOULD not --> SHOULD NOT
> 
> Agree.
> 
> > Line 2858, MAY --> may, since this is just describing what some
> > implementations could be doing and not exactly granting permission
> > for it.
> 
> Sure, and it's an example.
> 
> > I guess for consistency I should say the same thing about line 3049.
> 
> I guess "may" here, but no strong opinion.
> 
> > Line 3716, MUST not --> MUST NOT
> 
> Agree.

Thanks for double-checking my work.

-Ben