Re: [kitten] RFC 5742 review of draft-hotz-kx509

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Stephen Farrell
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> On 06/06/2012 06:11 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>> Your comment about the underscore is interesting.  Since we're documenting an existing protocol, the underscore is what it is.  Should we resolve the issue by requesting an exception, or by deleting the request for an addition to the registry?
>
> I don't even know what requesting an exception might mean for
> an IANA registry to be honest. It sounds like a bunch of work
> for someone in any case;-)

My guess is that when the IANA looks at this I-D on the RFC-Editor
queue they'll point this out, at which point the author(s) will point
out the need for an exception, which IANA should probably take to
require comment/consensus from KITTEN WG, which surely will be easy to
obtain.

> If you're ok with leaving it out, I suspect that might be the
> easier option all right.
>
> I suppose you could register without the illegal character
> and note in the text that current deployments use "_" and
> not "-" in the name but I'm not sure that'd be useful.

I'd rather the registry reflect reality :/  Let's try that first.

Nico
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