On Dec 10, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
Hi,
On 2008-12-5, at 20:45, Robert Sparks wrote:
To be clear, I'm asking about the limits on the description and
contact fields (text for people and email addresses) in this message,
not the restriction on the netid length.
Do we have, in the creation of other registries, explicit
restrictions
on how long the "who do you contact about this" field can be?
I don't know. I'd be OK with removing the limits on the "non-
technical" fields, such as contact information, because IANA can use
common sense to check those.
That's my recommendation, but its really a minor point.
I would like to keep it for the netid itself, because IANA can't
know whether a 1MB netid is appropriate or not (they don't
understand the technology, but they do understand that postal
addresses have a natural length limit.)
I agree.
I'm not objecting strongly to the limits on these fields, but I do
find them odd, and they add work for IANA (who will have to check
things against those limits), which seems in conflict with your
comment about not doing any reviewing below?
IANA evaluated the document and is OK with it.
Lars
RjS
On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:54 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
On 2008-12-5, at 1:12, Robert Sparks wrote:
Regarding the latter question I looked at some registries, and
these
seemed to be acceptable limits. Regarding the former question, one
has to have limits. What happens if someone submits a 1MB, 1GB,
1TB,
etc.
entry?
IANA says "You've got to be kidding".
This hasn't been a problem, and IANA's not going to need this
document
as a shield
to protect against someone trying to do something like that in the
future.
Is there any other registry that potentially names that are this
long? And with the first-com-first-served section of the registry,
IANA isn't supposed to do any reviewing.
I think the limitation is reasonable and practical.
Lars
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