Re: Comments on draft-ietf-kitten-gssapi-extensions-iana-02.txt

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>]

Nicolas Williams wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:25:43PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
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>>You are both missing the point.
>>Why does the entry need to have a status at all?
>>What purpose does it serve?
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>You're right, it serves little purpose.
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>Rather, we need to document how the entry came about (from the
>publication of an RFC, individual registration).
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Sure.

>A way to mark an entry as obsoleted might be nice though.  Someone adds
>GSS_Foo(), then later realizes that it should have some extra argument
>and they register GSS_Foobar() -- it'd be nice if they could mark
>GSS_Foo() as updated/obsoleted bu GSS_Foobar().
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Indeed, "obsolete" is very useful. Adding an entry as experimental ("I 
don't know if this is going to work, I might have to change the API 
later on") might be useful as well.

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