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Re: draft-ietf-kitten-extended-mech-inquiry-02.txt

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Tue, 21 November 2006 21:20 UTC

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On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 02:33:38PM -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> >Note that one could implement such a thing in terms of
> >GSS_Display_mech_attr().  In pseudo-C-code:
> 
> UGH.  If we think people should have any business doing the mapping in that 
> direction, we should just provide the API for it.  If not, not.

Most apps wouldn't need it, but things like IDEs would, so I would say,
yes, we need such a utility function.

Nico
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