RE: Separate LCUP cookie vs replication - was RE: Comments onLCU P draft - opaque cookie

The guidelines I recommended for modifying the document
have been adopted by the document editors. Specifically
about the label/OID, these guidelines indicate that the
document should describe how implementations are to
respond when they encounter labels/OIDs that they do not
natively support or understand. That is quite different
than stating formally in the spec that the labels are
irrelevant. As a co-chair, I wouldn't recommend that
a WG document be considered for IESG Last Call if it had
features explicitly specified, but specified as irrelevant.

Chris Apple
Program Manager - Directory Services
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   >-----Original Message-----
   >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
   >Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 11:25 AM
   >To: Kurt D. Zeilenga
   >Cc: Christopher Apple; [email protected]; 
   >'Richard Huber';
   >[email protected]; [email protected]
   >Subject: Re: Separate LCUP cookie vs replication - was RE: Comments
   >onLCU P draft - opaque cookie
   >
   >
   >I think the language in our (the LCUP authors') working 
   >version of the draft is sufficient.  As Mark said, the new 
   >version will be
   >out shortly.
   >
   >"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
   >
   >> Well, my concern is that by labeling a value (the cookie)
   >> which the client should not care about will lead to
   >> interoperability problems as clients will start caring
   >> about a label which shouldn't matter.  As the value of
   >> the cookie matters to the protocol peer which generated
   >> it, the label seems quite pointless to me.  However, as
   >> long as there is language added to the text stating that
   >> the label is irrelevant to the clients implementing this
   >> specification, I can live with it.
   >>
   >> Kurt
   >

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