Re: [stir] Questions about stir-certificates

Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com> Fri, 10 November 2017 02:17 UTC

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From: Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com>
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Subject: Re: [stir] Questions about stir-certificates
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> On Nov 1, 2017, at 00:40, Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 11/1/17 12:06 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 1:44 AM, Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>>> What is supposed to be done for variable length numbering schemes?
>> I figure that you would simply have multiple ranges, one for each
>> possible length.  That might mean 15 ranges in the worst case, but
>> it's probably better than any alternative I can think of.
> 
> That sounds unpleasant.
> 
> How about describing the range using a RE, or something similar to an RE restricted to digits?
> 

Honestly, I am afraid that defining some kind of RE/regex is going to run into issues with the IESG.  I’ll synch with Jon and try to figure out what we can do here to make this easier on the implementer.

spt