Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-secsh-publickeyfile-09.txt

[Jacob Nevins <jacobn+secsh%chiark.greenend.org.uk@localhost>]

[I realise that these comments are rather late as this document is on
its way into the IESG. I don't think any of these comments should hold
up publication, but if the document is respun for other reasons it
would be nice if they were taken into account.]


Neither the document title nor the abstract mention that this document
defines a standard textual representation for public key fingerprints.
This makes it harder than it could be to discover where the
fingerprint format is defined.

I suggest the following paragraph be added to the Abstract:

   In addition, this document defines a standard textual
   representation for SSH public key fingerprints.


Also, typos/nits (in addition to der Mouse's list in
<200508230323.XAA03425%Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA@localhost>):

3.5 (Differences with RFC1421 PEM formats):
|    Implemetors should take care to notice that while the format is

s/Implemetors/Implementors/

|    o  The other specifications use different BEGIN/END delimeters (five

s/delimeters/delimiters/

3.6 (Examples)

|    (note that the examples all wrap before 72 lines to meet ietf

s/lines/columns/
s/ietf/IETF/