Re: few comments on the prot-06 draft

[Andy Bierman <ietf@andybierman.com>]

Eliot Lear wrote:

> Andy Bierman wrote:
>
> > > I would have thought it should be type="xs:duration".
> > >  
> > Yikes!  This is way more complicated than we need!
>
>
> On the other hand, it's there.  There must be stuff to parse it already?!

This is a pretty weak argument.  The type 'positiveInteger' is also there
and it's really easy to parse -- way easier than 'duration'.  It's way 
easier
for operators to use in their scripts as well.

More importantly -- this parameter has been a positiveInteger in every 
I-D version.
The XSD has had a bug all along -- the confirm-timeout parameter was
not defined to correctly model the normative text.  The fix (make the XSD
match the normative text) is type="xs:positiveInteger.

A separate issue arose - whether 'minutes' was the proper units for this 
parameter.
There is a proposal to change the units from minutes to seconds.  Now there
is another proposal to change the data type to 'duration'.

I do not think there is consensus to make any change at this time.

I wonder what the rest of the WG thinks?


Andy


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