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

Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> Fri, 05 December 2008 06:55 UTC

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