Re: [Trans] 6962-bis: Explicitly define the colon operator

[Benjamin Kaduk <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 03:57:57PM +0000, Rob Stradling wrote:
> The -bis authors received this comment a few days ago:
> 
> "In page 9 of 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-trans-rfc6962-bis-31 in section 
> in section 2.1.3.1. we find
> 
> The : operator and D[k1:k2] are defined the same as in Section 2.1.1.
> 
> However, in section 2.1.1. the operator : is not found. There is no 
> definition of this operator."
> 
> 
> The IESG has evaluated version -31, and we (the authors) now have a 
> bunch of DISCUSS comments to address before CT v2 will (finally!) become 
> an RFC.  Although it's extremely late in the process to be making any 
> changes to the document (except for addressing the DISCUSS comments), 
> the WG Chairs and A-D (EKR) have given the go-ahead to address the 
> concern noted above, provided that I send this message to the list to 
> give folks a chance to object.
> 
> I've prepared a PR:
> https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-rfcs/pull/308

Interesting, I guess I mis-parsed what it was supposed to be, when
balloting (in that I mostly only saw the D[k1:k2] notation and asked what
"D[m]" was.  So I guess I should take another look, but maybe I can hold
off on that until there's text to review that resolves my DISCUSS points.

-Ben