On 2/15/25 3:38 PM, Rob Sayre wrote:
On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
The PRECIS specifications, which
followed the lead of the IDNA specifications in this regard, are
primarily intended to apply to strings that go in protocol slots,
Where is "protocol slot" defined? I looked in the PRECIS documents, and
they do use the term, but I couldn't find a definition.
We never formally defined the term. It is something like "a place
allotted by a protocol specification for communication or exchange of
addresses, identifiers, and other constructs critical to interoperation
between entities in a protocol." In the application protocols that were
considered during the process of developing the PRECIS specifications,
protocol slots were used to hold constructs such as IMAP/SASL/LDAP/SRP
usernames and passwords, IMAP access identifiers, EAP passphrases, iSCSI
initiators and targets, SNMP MIBs, XMPP JabberIDs and chatroom names and
user nicknames, and so on (see RFC 6885 for a longer list with pointers
to the relevant protocol specifications).
Peter
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