Re: [Isms] Last Call: rfc5953 (Transport Layer Security (TLS) Transport Model for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)) to Draft Standard

[Sean Turner <[e-mail]>]

Wes,

I asked Peter Tuesday about this and he confirmed that we don't need to 
say anything about setting the flag in the new text but you did need to 
say something about it with the old text.

spt

On 5/3/11 10:22 AM, Wes Hardaker wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 02 May 2011 16:54:23 +0200, Sean Turner<[e-mail]>  said:
>
> ST>  FYI I also asked about setting the UseSTD3ASCIIRules flag and Pete
> ST>  said it was completely unnecessary as far as he could tell.  That's
> ST>  why I just dropped it.
>
> I'm glad I took good notes last time.  The flag setting came from
> comments from Peter Saint-Andre:
>
> ******* CLOSED The definition of SnmpTLSAddress states that
>          "internationalized hostnames are encoded in US-ASCII as
>          specified in RFC 3490", but I think this could be defined more
>          precisely because (1) RFC 3490 does not talk about
>          "internationalized hostnames", (2) you need to state that you
>          are using the ToASCII operation, and (3) you need to specify
>          whether the UseSTD3ASCIIRules flag is set. This definition
>          also appears to make normative references to RFC 1033 and RFC
>          3490, but those specifications are not included in the
>          Normative References section. Finally, this definition
>          references RFC 3986 but that specification is never used here.
>
> 	+ WH: I've changed the text to the following to address your
> 	  concerns; please let me know if you believe it needs further
> 	  changes.
>
>              A hostname is always in US-ASCII (as per RFC1033);
>              internationalized hostnames are encoded in US-ASCII as
>              domain names after transformation via the ToASCII
>              operation specified in RFC 3490.  The ToASCII operation
>              MUST be performed with the UseSTD3ASCIIRules flag set.
>              The hostname is followed by a colon ':' (US-ASCII
>              character 0x3A) and a decimal port number in US-ASCII.
>              The name SHOULD be fully qualified whenever possible.
>
>
> 	+ WH: references for 3490 and 1033 moved to the normative section.
>
> 	+ WH: The 3986 reference has been removed (in the process of
> 	  responding to other similar comments).
>
>          + Peter: Excellent.
>