On 24 May 2013, at 21:50, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 25/05/2013 02:43, Tim Chown wrote:
> 
>> A couple of additional comments.
>> 
>> One is that from time to time there may be security issues raised with 
>> certain headers, e.g. RH0. These may obviously be raised over time. Is there 
>> a mechanism to catch these in the IANA registry somehow?
> 
> Shouldn't this just be part of the Security Comsiderations for
> the definition of each header? The registry will always contain a pointer
> to the relevant RFCs. IANA can't do much if the Security Considerations
> are insufficient.

Fair enough. It was just a question as to how it can be made as easy as 
possible for a developer to catch all the latest requirements/specs.

>> Another is whether there is any use of the "null" header type 59?  Or has 
>> that been deprecated?  If not, should it be so, given Brian doesn't list it. 
>>  Or is this viewed in the same category as TCP, etc as header types?
> 
> I think we included that in an earlier draft, but then removed it
> because it appears to function as a null transport header. It's
> a judgment call, and only needs a few keystrokes to put it back in the
> list.

OK, I have no strong preference, but you could maybe state in the draft that it 
is excluded and why, so readers don't wonder about it.

Overall I think the draft is in good shape, and the tweaks based on Ray's 
comments should make it even better.

Tim

> 
>   Brian
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