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impending publication of the NETCONF BEEP mapping - one final concern



Dear all,

After last call, a concern was raised regarding the NETCONF / BEEP application mapping that is due to be released, relating to the lack of <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> in the <hello> message. I would like to clarify why this is the case on the mailing list, and I will clarify this in the netconf-beep mapping.

Section 6.4 of RFC 3080 registers the MIME subtype application/beep+xml. That registration specifically specifies two restrictions, relating to the XML:

     First, no entity references other than the five predefined general
     entities references ("&amp;", "&lt;", "&gt;", "&apos;", and
     "&quot;") and numeric entity references may be present.

     Second, neither the "XML" declaration (e.g., <?xml version="1.0"
     ?>) nor the "DOCTYPE" declaration (e.g., <!DOCTYPE ...>) may be
     present.  (Accordingly, if another character set other than UTF-8
     is desired, then the "charset" parameter must be present.)

For this reason the example listed in draft-ietf-netconf-beep-10.txt varies from that listed in draft-ietf-netconf-ssh-06.txt (amongst other ways).

Regards,

Eliot

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