Hi Paul, I prefer option 3) - without text fields regardless of the intended status :-)
The argument is not "strings are hard", sometimes they are easier than reason codes. The actual reasons why I think this idea is bad are: first, these strings are intended to be read by humans and only in one language (English), which I think is not appropriate for the Internet-wide protocol. And second - I think that IKE is a low-level enough protocol to not deal with strings at all (e.g., you don't have strings in ICMP). Regards, Valery. > Hi, > > [ speaking wearing only by Authors hat ] > > The authors have a question on https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft- > pwouters-ipsecme-delete-info > > We had some discusison about the text field for "delete reason" in > draft-pwouters-ipsecme-delete-info. Some people liked it and some did > not. Mostly it was regarding fear of security and internationalization. > This resulted in -02 having the field and -03 having the field removed: > > https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url1=draft-pwouters-ipsecme-delete-info- > 02&url2=draft-pwouters-ipsecme-delete-info-03&difftype=--html > > However, the authors didn't agree with each other on which is best, > especially in the light of the document also moving from -02 as Standards > Track to -03 as Experimental. Since the reasons for removal of the text > field was "strings are hard, dont do it", one could argue that if we are > Experimental, why not try the strings and see how it works, then decide > later when/if it moves to Standards track on whether the text field was > a success or not. > > So the authors would like some input. Which do you prefer (and why): > > 1) Standards Track without text field > 2) Experimental Track with text field > 3) Other > > We hope to get some feedback this week so we can push a new draft before > the cut-off and maybe have some running code for IETF 123. > > Paul, on behave of all the authors :) > > _______________________________________________ > IPsec mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
