You know, the draft might actually even mean bytes in this instance. I'm trying to imagine what I'd do if I took this file to tops-20. I think it is either bytes or characters, octet seems clearly wrong.
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- Subject: DISCUSS: draft-ietf-secsh-publickeyfile-09.txt
- From: "Scott Hollenbeck" <sah%428cobrajet.net@localhost>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:21:31 -0400
Section 3, second paragraph, and elsewhere: "MUST NOT be longer than 72 bytes". "bytes" is an imprecise term. Do they really mean "8-bit ASCII characters", octets, or are 9-bit bytes as implemented on older hardware architectures also acceptable? Section 3.4 uses the term "characters" to describe a line length limitation. Consistency would be good. -Scott-
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