Re: A proposal from Adrian on the des deprecation registry

"Adrian Farrel" <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:16:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.krb-wg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > I would rather not replace deprecated enctypes' names with "deprecated".
> 
> Oh, dear, I missed that.  I agree strongly -- it's the enctype that's
> deprecated not the number, and the enctype still has a name.  We have
> enough problems with people using made-up names for enctypes without
> removing the real names from the registry.

Hi.

This is a perfectly valid view.

To be clear, you are deprecating the use of the mechanism, but if someone wants to use it, you want to make sure there is a clear code point available so that they can indicate which deprecated mechanism they are using.

Cheers,
Adrian

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