comments on KMIP draft

Hello,

  These may have already been taken 
care of, but passing them on to reflector for 
discussion.

Larry H

 

Potentially normative changes - may need further specification - 
Do not know what, if anything, to do. Potential interop issues? 
4.6 
Certify request. Does not say if an error shall be returned if not supported. 

4.7 Re-certify.  Same, does not say if an error shall be returned if 
not supported. 
4.8 Locate - I didn't see where it says what to do if NO 
matches are found. Should say a 
response with no objects is 
expected in this case. 
4.23 Validate.  Might be able to 
reword to say "Server MAY or MAY NOT return a response."  (It doesn't say 
what the required behavior is. )
6.1 Protocol Version - Potential for 
rathole is great. Not clear what behavior is if version issues are detected.... 
I don't see any Result Reason related to mismatches called out 
either. Perhaps it is a silent 
disconnect?
9 Message Encoding - Says "To support different transport 
protocols and different client capabilities, a number of message-encoding 
mechanisms are supported. "  I do not know if this means all 
message-encoding mechanisms must be implemented by servers and any may be used 
by clients.