RE: Remaining open issues for RFC-2401bis

[Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>]

>>>>> "Bora" == Bora Akyol <bora@cisco.com> writes:

 Bora> 8bit or 7bit text string?

 >> Well, if we allow this to be any octet string, then it presents
 >> complications for the user/management interface.  So we'd like to
 >> limit it to a text string containing alphanumeric characters, but
 >> not a binary string, etc.

7 bit text string?  Surely you're joking.

If something is supposed to be human-interpreted text then there's
only one answer, namely UTF-8.

     paul