Re: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-sasl-scram-07

[Ben Campbell <ben at estacado.net>]

Hi Alexey,

Your responses in this and your other email address all of my comments.

Thanks!

Ben.


On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Ben Campbell <ben at estacado.net>  
> wrote:
> [...]
> > Minor issues:
> [...]
> > -- section 4, first paragraph: "...as long as this alternative name  
> > doesn’t
> > conflict with any other hash function name from the IANA "Hash  
> > Function
> > Textual Names" registry."
> >
> > What prevents future conflicts if someone registers a name that  
> > conflicts
> > with the short name?
>
> Good point.
>
> > Should the short-names be IANA registered to prevent
> > this?
>
> This is a good idea. I've added:
>  Such alternative name SHOULD be registered in the IANA
>  "Hash Function Textual Names" registry.
>
> > (Should future names be limited to 9 chars?)
>
> I would rather not put extra restrictions on another registry due to
> limitations on SASL mechanism names.
>
> I would also note that the likelyhood of registering another SCRAM
> mechanism name is quite low, and the likelyhood of the conflict
> described above is even lower, so I wouldn't worry too much about this
> case anyway.