RE: paradox

["Glen Zorn \(gwz\)" <gwz@cisco.com>]

Barney Wolff <mailto:barney@databus.com> supposedly scribbled:

...

>> Just to be clear, I don't think I've claimed that there is a
>> document, just that there are known methods that (slightly extended)
>> to deal with the problem.  Off the top of my head, RFC 2868
>> specifies an (admittedly unsophisticated) method to group related
>> attributes together using "tags".  Although that document only uses
>> tags to group attributes of different types, I don't see why a
>> similar technique would not work with attributes of the same type
>> with the addition of the rule that all instances of the same
>> attribute with the same tag be concatenated in order.  A problem
>> would arise if you wanted to group long attributes with others but I
>> didn't think that we were talking about that...          
> 
> Well yes, I suppose that would work, for long attributes restricted
> to ASCII printable strings.  

Actually, I'm not sure why that restriction is necessary?

> Anybody favor using this technique for
> filter/traffic rules?  

Hope this helps,

~gwz

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  listening to John Coltrane? -- Henry Gabriel

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