Re: Consideration of draft-lior-radius-attribute-type-extension-02.txt

[Alan DeKok <aland@nitros9.org>]

Bernard Aboba wrote:
> One question I have is whether the Extended Attributes are only to be
> allocated once the existing Standards space has been exhausted, or
> whether allocation in the extended space can be requested before that. 
> It seems that some specifications could benefit from the extended
> functionality, prior to exhaustion of the standard space.

  I agree.  Anything *needing* the new functionality should use it.
Everything else should use the existing attribute space.

> It seems to me like there might be reason to request allocation of a PEN
> for the Extended Attribute space, as well as another PEN for additional
> standard attributes.

  Yes, and yes.

  Alan DeKok.

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