Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth-hoba-08.txt
Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 30 December 2014 21:46 UTC
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From: Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty.ietf@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth-hoba-08.txt
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Hi Stephen, On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> wrote: > On just a couple of points... > >>> Page 6/7/13, Figure 1/2/3: I'm not sure that something that is >>> entirely textural is best called a "Figure". But in any case, since >>> the text is, or at least has, lines that are flush left, it looks like >>> part of the preceding text and there isn't a clear demarcation of the >>> start. I recommend that the body of the Figures be indented 3 or 4 >>> spaces. >> >> I'd prefer let the RFC editor fix those if needed. > > I think that if we think a change in the formatting would make things > clearer, we should do that ourselves, and not defer it to the RFC > Editor. *We* should be happy with the document before we send it > over. I agree with Barry here, especially since you are providing an -09 soon. > >>> Page 19, IANA Considerations: It seems from >>> draft-leiba-coton-iana-5226bis that IANA would prefer IANA >>> Considerations to be written in the past tense as if the actions had >>> already been accomplished, presumably to minimize IANA re-writing >>> effort. Thus, I suggest that consideration be given to changing the >>> initial part, between the Section 9 heading and the Section 9.1 >>> heading, to the following and making similar changes in the remainder >>> of the IANA Considerations Section: > > I'm with Stephen here: please leave this alone. At this point, the > document is making a request, and that's a fine way to put it. I'm fine with leaving this as well. > >>> Page 20, Section 9.4: Suggest the "Meaning" for 2 be "an unformatted >>> UTF8 string". There should probably be a Reference column. "a small >>> positive integer" is undefined. >> >> Oh come on. Small positive integer utterly clear as is unformatted >> string in this context. UTF8 isn't needed here as this is not meant >> to be seen by a user. > > With this and all other strings, the question isn't whether users are > going to see it or not, but how implementors are supposed to know what > a "string" is and how to create it. If it's an arbitrary sequence of > bytes, then it should say that, rather than "string". If it's really > a string and is meant to represent characters in some encoding system, > then it needs to say either what encoding system that is (UTF-8, > US-ASCII, or whatever) or that it doesn't matter and that any encoding > can be used. The latter only works if the string is never consumed by > an entity other than the one that created it. Thanks Donald & Barry. Best regards, Kathleen > > Barry > -- Best regards, Kathleen
- [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth-hob… Donald Eastlake
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth… Kathleen Moriarty
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth… Barry Leiba
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth… Kathleen Moriarty
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth… Stephen Farrell
- Re: [secdir] SECDIR review of draft-ietf-httpauth… Kathleen Moriarty