Re: [IPsec] Barry Leiba's No Objection on draft-ietf-ipsecme-qr-ikev2-10: (with COMMENT)

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Mon, 13 January 2020 18:12 UTC

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:12:33 -0800
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: [IPsec] Barry Leiba's No Objection on draft-ietf-ipsecme-qr-ikev2-10: (with COMMENT)
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 09:46:43PM -0800, Barry Leiba via Datatracker wrote:
> Barry Leiba has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-ipsecme-qr-ikev2-10: No Objection
> 
[...]
> 
> I also find it interesting that Alexey thought you needed to add a normative
> reference for “ASCII”, bit not for “base64”.  Personally, I think both are
> sufficiently well known that you need neither.

In this case I'm inclined to agree, given the way that the base64 alphabet
is used.  (We do sometimes get into trouble with base64 vs. base64url, and
I've asked for specific section references on occasion to disambiguate...)

-Ben