On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 02:46:34PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > On Thu, 2013-10-17 at 23:08 -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > > > GSS security context token exchanges are synchronous and may involve > > > any number of context tokens larger than or equal to one. > > > Implementations MUST NOT assume any number of context tokens for any > > > one mechanism, but implementations MAY set an upper bound no less > > > than six (6). > > > > I'm not sure where the number six is coming from, so I haven't taken this > > part yet. The rest of the wording is probably okay to take, though.
Er, I pulled it out of... thin air just because there has to be a limit sometime. Make 20. Or say nothing about that. > Me either. Naturally, a client can give up whenever it wants. However, > this is really not the place to introduce what is essentially a new > limitation on GSS-API mechanisms. No one is going to say "we can't > standardize this mech because it requires 7 round trips and AFS only > supports 6". Agreed. _______________________________________________ AFS3-standardization mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/afs3-standardization
