Re: [dccp] Re: wildcard service code?

[Eddie Kohler <kohler at CS.UCLA.EDU>]

Hi Tom,

> > The spec is meant to forbid wildcard Service Codes.  "If the DCCP-
> > Request's Service Code doesn't match any of the   server's Service
> > Codes for the given port, the server MUST reject the request by
> > sending a DCCP-Reset packet with Reset Code 8, "Bad Service
> > Code"."  (Section 8.1.2)  I suppose one could weasel and say that
> > "match" is not defined.  We meant equality; and I suppose we could
> > say 'equals'.
>
> Maybe we do want to say "equals".  Although I'm not sure that if  
> the spec
> said that originally we would've avoided the current discussion about
> wildcards.  At least some of this discussion seems to be because  
> people
> either read the spec long ago and forgot details, or didn't read it  
> closely
> enough in the first place, and jumped to conclusions ("boy, a  
> wildcard SC would
> be neat, I think the spec said something about it ...").
>
> Note that the above isn't meant as a criticism -- I'm certainly in  
> the "read the
> spec long ago and forgot details" camp.  This discussion is helping  
> me regain
> some details :-).

No, that's fine.  I don't think we would have avoided the wildcard  
discussion; people advocate a wildcard because they want to use one,  
not because they think the spec *might* allow one.  But "equals"  
seems like better wording.  I would feel comfortable putting this  
change in at AUTH48.

Eddie