Re: contact:disclose clarifications / best practices

Klaus Malorny <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.provreg
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On 23/01/13 13:20, Keith Gaughan wrote:
>> 3) is it ok to disclose the contact:disclose itself to third-parties?
>> I guess it is, also to alleviate determining what fields contain real
>> data instead of workaround fill junk?
>
> I can't see any harm in doing so. It's not disallowed. Again, we need to know if
> this command is being issued with or without a <contact:authInfo> element.

Ideally, a third-party person should not be able to distinguish between a field 
that is not present and a field that is not disclosed. But this is impossible 
for fields which are considered mandatory by the protocol.

Regards,

Klaus








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