Re: draft-arkko-roamops-rfc2486bis-02.txt

[Jari Arkko <[e-mail]>]

[e-mail] wrote:
> 
> Hello Jari,
> 
> Very minor, a missing period on the bottom of section 2.7.
>         "would first be converted in other1.example net to"
> should be
>         "would first be converted in other1.example.net to"

Thanks, this is now corrected.

> Also, sorry to come in so late on the disccusion but just wanted to add 
> a comment on 2.7 Realm Construction as it pertains to roaming.  The 
> proposed method seems to be opposite of what I see in practice today. 
>  Typically what is commonly referred to as the prefix domain, the 
> portion before the '!', is used for the intermediary domains where the 
> suffix domain, portion after the '@', is used as the home domain.  Not 
> only does it make it much more readable since the username@realm is 
> preserved at the end of the string, but it also takes away the need to 
> reorder the parts when proxying and is simpler for an intermediary 
> domain to just strip off its own domain in the front and the first '!' 
> and pass on the rest of the string.  
> 
> So in your example where you have
> 
>         other2.example.net!home.example.net![e-mail]
> 
> in practice today it would be written as
> 
>         other1.example.net!other2.example.net![e-mail]
> 
> and sent from other1.example.net as
>        
>         other2.example.net![e-mail]
> 
> and sent from other2.example.net as
> 
>         [e-mail]
> 
> Not sure it really makes much of a difference since both are recursive 
> just seems a little cleaner to me...

I think we have had this discussion in the past already,
and came to the conclusion which is in the current draft...

--Jari

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