I also like the first version of the text.

~Tim

On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 1:39 AM Eric Vyncke (evyncke) <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Like Bernie, I prefer the first version of the new text.
>
> -éric
>
> *From: *Megan Ferguson <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Thursday, 8 January 2026 at 01:10
> *To: *Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Bernie Volz <
> [email protected]>, Tomek Mrugalski <[email protected]>, Eric
> Vyncke (evyncke) <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *[email protected] <[email protected]>, Editor RFC <
> [email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] <[email protected]>, Suresh Krishnan (sureshk) <
> [email protected]>, Shawn Zandi via auth48archive <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: [AD] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9915 <draft-ietf-dhc-rfc8415bis-12>
> for your review
>
> Hi Tomek (and *Éric),
>
> Any further thoughts/suggestions or preference related to one of these
> options from Bernie?
>
>
> >>>>> 7. Can client send status code?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The table in Section 21.13 lists UnspecFail status code with this
> text:
> >>>>> "...this status code is sent by either a client or a server to
> indicate
> >>>>> a failure...". In which cases client would be sending status code? I
> >>>>> don't remember ever seeing client sending a status code in the wild.
> Is
> >>>>> this to indicate some weird failure in reconfigure? Do we have a
> >>>>> normative text somewhere that would say "client sends status code if
> >>>>> ..."? I'm not sure what would be the point. What would the server be
> >>>>> supposed to do with such information?
> >>>>>
> >>>> bv> you are correct that a client cannot send a status code, at least
> in the messages covered by this document. Again 3315 and 8415 have this
> text. Though I am a bit unsure as to whether we should actually change this
> text.
> >>> [rfced] Please let us know how to proceed (perhaps *AD input could
> help?).
> >>>
> >>> AD> Let's avoid ambiguities and update the text to be clear that
> status code is sent by the server only and should be ignored by the server
> upon receiving any status code. Authors, can you propose OLD/NEW text ?
>
> Bernie’s suggestions that were favored by Michael:
> >
> > Bernie Volz <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> UnspecFail   1       Failure, reason unspecified; this status code
> >> is sent by a server to indicate a failure not explicitly specified in
> >> this document.
> >
> > I prefer this one.
> > (Not sure if my middle-of-the-night phone poking worked)
> >
> >> Or, we could use (as the two conditions where this is used in the text
> >> are clear indications that this is sent by server to client):
> >
> >> UnspecFail   1       Failure, reason unspecified; indicates a
> >> failure not explicitly specified in this document.
> >
> > This one also works for me.
> >
> >
> >
> Thank you.
>
> Megan Ferguson
> RFC Production Center
>
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