Mark Doliner wrote:
> Oh Oct 24, 2007 at 3:38 PM Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Mark Doliner wrote:
>>> On Oct 24, 2007 at 1:50 PM Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>>> 6. XEP-0175: Best Practices for Use of SASL ANONYMOUS
>>>>
>>>> Approve version 1.1pre1?
>>>>
>>>> All Council members in attendance voted +1. Ralph to vote on the list.
>>>> Dave raised issue about possible confusion regarding trace data.
>> Council
>>>> wordsmithed an acceptable solution during the meeting:
>>>>
>>>> http://svn.xmpp.org:18080/browse/XMPP/trunk/extensions/xep-
>>>> 0175.xml?r1=1297&r2=1310
>>> The revised text says, "although RFC 4505 allows the initiating entity
>> (client) to provide so-called 'trace data' when authenticating via SASL
>> ANONYMOUS, it is NOT RECOMMENDED to include trace data as the XML
>> character data of the <auth/> element (instead, the <auth/> element SHOULD
>> be empty). However, if trace data is included, the server MUST NOT use it
>> for any purpose other than tracing (e.g., in server logs)."
>>> However, this seems to conflict with section 7.5.5 of draft-saintandre-
>> rfc3920bis-04 [1] which shows a "malformed-request" failure when this data
>> is provided for SASL ANONYMOUS.
>>
>> I think I already fixed that:
>>
>> http://svn.xmpp.org:18080/browse/XMPP/trunk/internet-drafts/draft-
>> saintandre-rfc3920bis-05.xml?r1=1294&r2=1296
> 
> Oh, er, is "[ ... extremely-long-token ... ]" intended to imply that the 
> token is unusably long, like a million characters or something absurd?

It's intended to mean that it violates the rule from RFC 4505:

        token       = 1*255TCHAR

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