Re: online signing draft

[Niall O'Reilly <niall.oreilly@ucd.ie>]

On 11 Nov 2004, at 09:54, Geoffrey Sisson wrote:

> Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Samuel Weiler wrote:
> >
> > > Better Increment & Decrement Functions
> >
> > Geoff and I have been working on a rigorous definition of these, 
> > which I
> > hope he'll post later today.
>
> Now available at:
>
>     http://www.panix.com/~geoff/draft-sisson-dnsext-dns-name-p-s-00.txt

in which may be found the following text.

>    3.  If the least significant (right-most) octet in the least
>        significant (left-most) label is the minimum sort value, remove
>        that octet; otherwise decrement the value of the octet, skipping
>        any values which correspond to upper-case US-ASCII letters, and
>        then append the label with as many octets as possible of the
>        maximum sort value.  In either case, continue to the next step.

I think there's one other special character you have to guard against!

>        ... skipping
>        any values which correspond either to upper-case US-ASCII 
> letters
>        or to the dot (\056), and ...

/Niall



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