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

[Robert Sparks <[e-mail]>]

On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:

> 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.
That's my recommendation, but its really a minor point.
>
>
> 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 agree.

>
>
>> 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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