Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-eai-rfc5721bis-07,

Thanks for the response!

On Sep 21, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> wrote:
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>> -- same paragraph : "The UTF8 command MAY fail."
>> 
>> Under what circumstances? (this seems sort of tacked onto the paragraph--does it belong there?)
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> AFAICT, it is simply a warning to client writers that the server may (for whatever reasons under whatever circumstances) send back an -ERR response to the command, even if it advertises the capability. Seems appropriate.
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>> -- 2.1, 4th paragraph: "...need not be accurate, but it is preferable if they were."
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>> Not preferable enough for a SHOULD? (Note that the previous sentence used SHOULD for reporting actual message size counts)
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> There is no interoperability impact regarding sizes in STAT and free-form text (unlike LIST), so SHOULD is inappropriate.
> 

Okay.

>> -- section 7, 3rd paragraph: "It is possible for a man-in-the-middle attacker to insert a LANG command in the command stream, thus making protocol-level diagnostic responses unintelligible to the user."
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>> This seems a bit unnecessary to call out, given that a MiTM could just change the diagnostic responses into Klingon even in the absence of the LANG command. It's at least worth mentioning that the LANG command really doesn't make this issue worse than it already was.
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> Taken under advisement.
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> pr
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