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

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:12 AM, Binu Ramakrishnan <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Confirmed, and updated the doc with the RFC reference.
>

Awesome, thanks!

W


>
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Viktor Dukhovni <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Apr 16, 2018, at 2:24 PM, Warren Kumari <[e-mail]> 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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