eap Mailing List: Re: RFC-2284bis-07 Identity request

[Jari Arkko (jari.arkko]

We discussed this in issue 142, see

  http://www.drizzle.com/~aboba/EAP/eapissues.html#Issue%20142

and the mail archives. The working group agreed at that time,
do we have some new information at this time that would make
us reconsider this? I'm not sure there is.

Having said that, I think Appendix A of RFC 2284bis is misleading
because it just talks about the ISO character set clarifications
in 5.1 and 5.2, but does not mention this issue. Perhaps we should
add the following text to Appendix A, right after the item that
talks about 5.1:

   o  The null character is forbidden in the Type-Data field of an
      Identity Response message, as it is in RFC 2284. But the this rule
      has been relaxed for Identity Requests, and it is now required
      that if the Type-Data field of an Identity Request contains a
      null character, only the part before the null is displayed.

Would this work for you?

--Jari