> On Nov 22, 2016, at 5:04 PM, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I was reminded that the data field already exists and some people may be 
> using it.
> Putting a human readable string into it should be fine.
> If someone puts something else, then the result is just Jibberish,
> but not harmful.

Minimal sanitizing of the string to make sure it's a valid utf-8 is still 
necessary, or at least that your printf equivalent doesn't barf on malformed 
utf-8.

> OTOH, TLVs could get tricky.
> If we want to use TLVs, another NOTIFICATION sub code might be wise.

No worse than malformed utf-8.

> 
> (I wonder where Jibber is and whether we should hold an IETF meeting there)

Probably should refer the question to the mtgvenue WG. 

-- Jeff

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