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

[nagi reddy jonnala (Nagi_Reddy.Jonnala]

Jari,

Yes, it is perfect if you add the text to Appendix A.

Thanks
Nagi



Jari Arkko wrote:

> 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