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Re: [Ntp] Registries document

Hal Murray <halmurray@sonic.net> Mon, 24 July 2023 05:49 UTC

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Salz, Rich said:
>    Thanks for this!  Nice to see a comprehensive collection.

I think "comprehensive" is a bit too strong.


>    I have no opinion and will write down whatever the WG wants. 

I think we should encourage people to limit things to upper and lower case and 
numbers, padded with trailing NUL/0.  No puncuation.  No spaces.

There is no way to enforce anything so there should be a warning that code 
using that field should be defensive.

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