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Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-14

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Thu, 30 July 2009 11:24 UTC

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To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>, Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-14
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Simon Josefsson wrote:

>Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> writes:
>  
>
>>Jeff Hutzelman points out that RFC2744 specifically requires that all
>>gss_buffer_t outputs be released.  That wouldn't bother me at all here
>>(we'd have to say that draft-ietf-sasl-gs2 updates RFC2744), but,
>>RFC5587 (draft-ietf-kitten-extended-mech-inquiry, in AUTH48) had a
>>chance to do that and didn't, so I'd say that these output buffers
>>should be released by the app.
>>    
>>
>Good catch, I have removed the paragraph.  How memory should be managed
>by applications (i.e., they have to be released) then follows directly
>from the normative RFC 2744 and GS2 shouldn't say anything about it.
>Alexey, I hope this resolves your question.
>  
>
Can we say that informatively in the document, considering that this 
mistake was done before?

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