Re: Publish ID draft-openssh-secsh-compression-delayed-00.txt

[Ben Harris <bjh21%bjh21.me.uk@localhost>]

In article <E1GmVpr-0006nc-00%chiark.greenend.org.uk@localhost> you write:
>In article <Pine.BSO.4.64.0611211152561.14159%fuyu.mindrot.org@localhost> you write:
>>So we could define a global message with no "payload":
>>
>>SSH_MSG_CLIENT_AUTHDONE	62
>>
>>The client would send this message upon receipt of the SSH_MSG_USERAUTH_SUCCESS.
>>If the client has selected the delayed compression mode, it will be the
>>last uncompressed message it sends.
>
>You probably don't want to use 62, since that's in the range reserved
>for the current userauth method.  Somewhere in 54-59 would be more
>appropriate (and would require a Standards Action to get it allocated).
>
>It seems to me, though, that allocating a whole new message number is
>overkill here.  If you're happy to overload existing messages, you could
>just say that the last uncompressed packets are the
>SSH_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST and SSH_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT for "ssh-connection".

Simon's just pointed out that I'm being an idiot and this isn't how 
ssh-connection starts.  Sorry about that.

-- 
Ben Harris