Re: WG Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-gs2-14

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 05:35:08PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> The GS2 document could also say that applications needs to release
> memory for these output variables.  However, I think these three output
> variables would typically be stored in static storage and wouldn't need
> to be released.  We could clarify this.  How about adding
> 
>    The memory allocate for the output variables need not be released
>    by the application.
> 
> to the sections for new GSS-API interfaces?

That's exactly it: there's no need to release these outputs as they
should be constants, effectively.