Re: [Gen-art] Fwd: genart LC review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-rpc-netid-03.txt (and -04)

[Lars Eggert <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

On 2008-12-5, at 20:45, Robert Sparks wrote:
> To be clear, I'm asking about the limits on the description and
> contact fields (text for people and email addresses) in this message,
> not the restriction on the netid length.
>
> Do we have, in the creation of other registries, explicit restrictions
> on how long the "who do you contact about this" field can be?

I don't know. I'd be OK with removing the limits on the "non- 
technical" fields, such as contact information, because IANA can use  
common sense to check those.

I would like to keep it for the netid itself, because IANA can't know  
whether a 1MB netid is appropriate or not (they don't understand the  
technology, but they do understand that postal addresses have a  
natural length limit.)

> I'm not objecting strongly to the limits on these fields, but I do
> find them odd, and they add work for IANA (who will have to check
> things against those limits), which seems in conflict with your
> comment about not doing any reviewing below?

IANA evaluated the document and is OK with it.

Lars

>
>
> RjS
>
> On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
>
>> On 2008-12-5, at 1:12, Robert Sparks wrote:
>>>> Regarding the latter question I looked at some registries, and  
>>>> these
>>>> seemed to be acceptable limits. Regarding the former question, one
>>>> has to have limits. What happens if someone submits a 1MB, 1GB,  
>>>> 1TB,
>>>> etc.
>>>> entry?
>>>
>>> IANA says "You've got to be kidding".
>>>
>>> This hasn't been a problem, and IANA's not going to need this
>>> document
>>> as a shield
>>> to protect against someone trying to do something like that in the
>>> future.
>>
>> Is there any other registry that potentially names that are this
>> long? And with the first-com-first-served section of the registry,
>> IANA isn't supposed to do any reviewing.
>>
>> I think the limitation is reasonable and practical.
>>
>> Lars

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