Re: small typo in draft-leach-digest-sasl-03.txt and some questions

[Tony Hansen <tony@xxxxxxx>]

Paul Leach wrote:
> 
> > From: Tony Hansen [mailto:tony@xxxxxxx]
> >
> > Are all name=value pairs permitted to have quotation marks around the
> > value?
> 
> That wasn't the intent. Only ones that need it because they might contain
> stuff that needs to be quoted.
> 
> > For example, can you write
> >
> >       nc="3"
> 
> Nope.
> 
> ...
> In my implementation, following the "be conservative in what you send and
> liberal in what you accept" rule, I'd probably allow any name value-pair to
> be quoted, and log something. But the spec clearly doesn't allow it.

I have a feeling that many implementations will get this wrong and it
would be worth simplifying things now before we get much further. The
simplification I have in mind is of course to "allow any name value-pair
to be quoted". It makes code, maintenance and the protocol description
much simpler, all around.

	Tony Hansen
	tony@xxxxxxx