[2217] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: password change protocol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Feb 11 11:38:19 1997
To: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 11 Feb 1997 11:37:30 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Barry Jaspan"'s message of Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:22:29 -0500
"Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> o I don't like having the TCP version of the protocol require a length
>> field that is not in the UDP version. I understand that the length is
>> implicit in a UDP packet, but it means that an implementation of the
>> protocol will be network protocol dependent, which there is no reason
>> for it to be. So I think the UDP version should also contain an
>> explicit length field as well.
Someone else (jhawk?) made this argument, too, and I've accepted it.
>> o Are you sure the protocol, and not site policy, should require that
>> the INITIAL flag be set in the protocol?
No, I'm not sure. I could change this to "strongly recommended" and
include some explanatory text. I should probably add the explanatory
text, anyway.
I think that I'm going to leave it this way, but bring it up as an
issue for the working group to discuss.
Marc
