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Subject: FW: padata-type ?
Scott,
I asked on IETF kerberos WG about referencing rfc1510. The concensus is that we should not since RFC number will change fairly soon when IESG approve the Kerberos 5, Specification 2 (aka clarifications).
I just got your email which suggests you have chosen to refer to it as Kerberos anyway, so this email is just FYI.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:jhutz@cmu.edu]
Sent: 12 April 2004 20:28
To: Tim Alsop; Sam Hartman
Cc: ietf-krb-wg@anl.gov
Subject: RE: padata-type ?
On Monday, April 12, 2004 18:15:23 +0100 Tim Alsop
<Tim.Alsop@CyberSafe.Ltd.UK> wrote:
> The reason for asking is that I am working with another standard (not
> IETF controlled) that will make reference to the Kerberos standard, so I
> want to make sure if we mention rfc1510 that this rfc number is going to
> be the correct rfc in the future. If I understand you correctly, a new
> number will be allocated when clarifications is approved by IESG so we
> should make this clear in our documentation.
That is correct. RFC's are immutable; once published, an RFC never changes
(the rfc-editor does maintain a list of errata in published RFC's at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.html, but the originial documents are
never modified).
RFC1510 describes Kerberos V, Specification 1.
Once approved, kerberos-clarifications will be published as a new RFC; this
will obsolete RFC1510 and (in combination with the crypto and AES
documents) will describe Kerberos V, Specification 2.
In most cases it is desirable in a standards context for normative
references to be to a particular version of the specification. For IETF
standards, you can do this by referring to a particular RFC. In a few
cases, you actually want a reference to "the current version", whatever
that happens to be. The IETF way to do this is to refer to an STD number;
however, these numbers are currently assigned only to full Internet
standards.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
Sr. Research Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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