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Re: RFC2486bis issue 10 (Was: Re: Status of open issues?)

The first issue resolution is inline with my proposal and acceptable to me.

regards
Nagi.

Jari Arkko wrote:

> It seems that my draft has one issue, #10, marked
> as open. It was partially addressed already, but
> there's apparently one small thing that needs to
> be changed. I have revised the draft and if the WG
> agrees with the resolution I will submit it.
>
> Here's what the issue said:
>
> > See the snips from formal syntax (In fact they are there in the original RFC as well).
> >
> > char        =/ "\" x
> > x           =  %x00-7F ; all 128 ASCII characters, no exception
> >
> > I suppose that you would want to allow the user name like
> > "myusername\x0\x1". I'm curious to know  in which cases do we make use
> > of these combo characters.
>
> I do not know, but I do not want to limit the syntax from
> the original RFC. Lets leave them as they are.
>
> > Doesn't it look consistent if you make the syntax of x to take all 256
> > includes ASCII and the remaining UTF-8 characters ( i.e., x = %x00-FF)
>
> I think so. I have produced a straman version of
> draft-ietf-radext-rfc2486bis-01, see:
>
>    http://www.arkko.com/publications/nai/naibisdiff.html
>
> > [Ignacio Goyret]
> >
> > A detail:
> >
> > c =/ %x60-7a ; 'a'-'z' allowed
> > ^^^^ ^^^
> >
> > 0x60 == '`' (on a US keyboard, it is the key to the left of the '1'
> > 0x61 == 'a'
> > ...
>
> This has already been corrected in
> draft-ietf-radext-rfc2486bis-00.txt.
>
> > This also looks odd:
> > c =/ %x26 ; '&et;' allowed
> > ^^^
> > In USASCII, 0x26 == '&' or '&' in html. Right?
>
> This too.
>
> --Jari
>
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