Hi Roman,

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 5:36 PM Roman Danyliw <r...@cert.org> wrote:

> Hi Druhv!
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> Thanks for the follow-up.
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> *From:* Dhruv Dhody <d...@dhruvdhody.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 23, 2024 5:45 AM
> *To:* Roman Danyliw <r...@cert.org>
> *Cc:* pce@ietf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Pce] AD Review of
> draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-policy-cp-17
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> Hi Roman,
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> Thanks for taking on the AD role for this I-D.
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> On Sat, Sep 21, 2024 at 12:35 AM Roman Danyliw <r...@cert.org> wrote:
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> ** Section 4.2.1
>    SR Policy Name: SR Policy name, as defined in [RFC9256].  It SHOULD
>    be a string of printable ASCII characters, without a NULL terminator.
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> The use of SHOULD here implies that the encoding could be something other
> than printable ASCII.  That would be prohibited by the text in Section 2.1
> of RFC9256.  Perhaps s/SHOULD/must/.
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> Same comment for nearly identical text in Section 4.2.3
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> Dhruv: FWIW past RFCs that encode strings in PCEP have used a similar
> language - RFC 8231, RFC 9358! That said, I don't mind making a change
> going forward.
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> [Roman] Does the WG remember why this “SHOULD” was used?  Would a UTF
> string or non-printable ASCII be acceptable since the “SHOULD” suggests
> there are cases where printable ASCII need not be used?
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Dhruv: Not speaking for the WG, but my understanding of the SHOULD in the
past was that as an implementation I will be liberal in what I accept and
not throw an error if I receive non-printable ASCII characters from the
peer.

Thanks!
Dhruv



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