Bob Harold <rharo...@umich.edu> writes:

>     > Did you read the new replacement sentence?
>     >
>     >        Applications MUST continue to follow requirements from applicable
>     >        specs on how to process RCODEs no matter what EDE values is also
>     >        received.
>     >
>     > Is that sufficient?
>    
>     Yes, thank you.
>    
>     --Paul Hoffman
> 
> Just a note. The original draft had a 'retry' code that was intended
> to change how the client reacted. That has been removed, but there
> are still some that would like to 'act on' the EDE.  One reason given
> for not doing that is that is can be spoofed or changed by attackers,
> so it cannot be trusted. I was hoping that this could improve some
> cases where the client is not acting in an optimal way, but I can
> understand why that would be discouraged.  Should we warn implementers
> of the issues, but still not forbid acting on them?

Well, I think the new text tries to do this, no?  Specifically, we're
now saying "follow other specs", but we don't specifically prohibit
not-acting if there are no other specs that intervene.
-- 
Wes Hardaker
USC/ISI

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