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Re: [Uta] Warren Kumari's Discuss on draft-ietf-uta-smtp-tlsrpt-18: (with DISCUSS)

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Mon, 16 April 2018 18:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Uta] Warren Kumari's Discuss on draft-ietf-uta-smtp-tlsrpt-18: (with DISCUSS)
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> On Apr 16, 2018, at 2:24 PM, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
> 
>> Strings in TXT records have a single-octet length field. When returning a longer
>> string, or when one wants to explicitly segment a TXT RDATA into multiple strings
>> one returns:
>> 
>>        txt.example. IN TXT "first string" "second string" ... "last string"
>> 
>> with the wire RDATA being:
>> 
>>        <len1>first string<len2>second string...<lenN>last string
>> 
> 
> Ah, you mean basically do what RFC4408, S 3.1.3 says? I *completely*
> didn't understand that from the above... I still think that it would
> be useful to have an example of multiple strings which meet the above
> (preferably in "zone file" format) but I'll accept that I was just
> being dumb and clear my DISCUSS.

Yes, but I'm not an author, that's just how I read that text,
so I'll let the authors confirm.  Perhaps a reference to:

   https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4408#section-3.1.3

i,e. "Section 3.1.3 of rfc4408" would help other readers.

-- 
	Viktor.

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