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Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Tue, 01 September 2009 22:33 UTC

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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:20:59 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha@kth.se>
Subject: Re: KITTEN: IETF 75 - 76
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 03:18:13PM -0700, Love Hörnquist Åstrand wrote:
> 
> 1 sep 2009 kl. 15:13 skrev Michael B Allen:
> 
> > it means that you need to call it again later
> 
> When is later unless you get a callback ?

I agree.  Callbacks are easy.  My construction (for ISC) is simpler: no
need for all the ISC output args in the callback.

Love's credential iterator callback is trivial.

Callbacks are very common in API design.

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