Re: draft-ietf-secsh-dns-04 comments

[Pekka Savola <pekkas%netcore.fi@localhost>]

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Jakob Schlyter wrote:
> thanks, I've integrated your changes. since this is only editoral changes,
> I assume we do not need another last call.

Oh, that's why I got around to see the draft.  Yes, I agree this doesn't 
necessitate another IETF LC.

> > (looking back, you could also add a reference to RFC2434 in the IANA
> > considerations section)
> 
> why?

To get a reference to what "IETF Consensus" by the definition of RFC2434 
means.

> > @@ -234,7 +234,9 @@
> >           /                          fingerprint                          /
> >           /                                                               /
> >           +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> > -
> > +==> please use the more common textual representation, seems much more
> > +natural
> > +==> the picture is 74 chars wide --- not good!
> 
> textual representation? please elaborate.

please look at e.g. RFC2460 and many other RFC's on how they have 
represented it there:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Version| Traffic Class |           Flow Label                  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |         Payload Length        |  Next Header  |   Hop Limit   |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                                                               +
   |                                                               |
   +                         Source Address                        +
   |                                                               |
   +                                                               +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                                                               +
   |                                                               |
   +                      Destination Address                      +
   |                                                               |
   +                                                               +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

.. this is the de-facto way of representing bits, I think -- and should be 
used.

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