Renair wrote, on a reply of a earlier posting of me. >> In the context of -sign, this is NO issue at all,[...] However, in >> the light of -international, things are quite different.
> But I think you did not get the spirit of my post. I can see this > because you snipped out the most important part. [...] reads as follows: I'm sorry, to give that impression. I used the ``[ ... ] '' notation to shorted the quote. That part IS important. In short: For security, crypto is needed. That is what -sign is about. To make that work, a reboot counter can be used. But the security doesn't depend on that counter. Similar, a reboot-counter can be used "to make -international work". However, when implementing (or even reading) the rfc's two kind of reboot-counters can lead to misunderstanding. Therefor, I suggest (to both authors of both drafts) to use different words. Just to give the authors a hint: For -sign, which basically add the concept of "secure sessions", the term "session-number" can be used. For -international, (which draft I not familiar with,) a term as "fragment-counter" can possible be used. Hope this helps, and clearifies. Note to the WG: On a private discussion about syslog, we (Renair and me) agree we agree on most issues. So please don't misread our discussion! --ALbert Mietus Send prive mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send business mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't send SPAM! -- --ALbert Mietus Send prive mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send business mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't send SPAM!