RE: Comments on RFC2806bis
"Brett Tate" <[email protected]> Thu, 23 May 2002 15:00:22 -0400
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> > Commas are no problem, and coding is > > no problem. It would be a deployment > > and interoperability inconvenience resulting > > from some devices supporting rfc2806, > > others only supporting rfc2806bis. > > You haven't identified what these > "inconveniences" would be. I think > there's general agreement that allowing > random character string in > context is a potentially large > interoperability problem, so we have to > pick our poison. My above comment was in response to the slam about the 30 second development effort to rename "phone-context" to be "context". It was not regarding the valid contents of phone-context. > > I agree that the new phone-context > > definition is better since it forces > > structure for potential use with DNS, and it > > provides an explicit solution to avoid > > accidental duplicate private-prefix names. > > > > We can reformat our rfc2806 usage of > > private prefixes to accommodate the > > rfc2806bis format. > > Glad to hear that. There having been > no other notes on this topic, can > we declare it closed? Yes, assuming your prior email is still correct that "phone-context" shall not be renamed to be "context".