Status:

Rejected

Type:

Technical

Reported By:

Jim Schaad

Date Reported:

2015-07-06

Rejected by:

Barry Leiba

Date Rejected:

2020-07-17

Section 3.9 says:

  The sorting rules are:

      *  If two keys have different lengths, the shorter one sorts
         earlier;

      *  If two keys have the same length, the one with the lower value
         in (byte-wise) lexical order sorts earlier.

It should say:

  The sorting rules are:

      *  If the major types are different, the one with the lower value
          in numerical order sorts earlier.

      *  If two keys have different lengths, the shorter one sorts
         earlier;

      *  If two keys have the same length, the one with the lower value
         in (byte-wise) lexical order sorts earlier.

Notes:

As the rules are currently written,  The integer -257 would be sorted after the integer 16 because has a length of 2 rather than a length of 1.  First rule says shorter keys sort first.  However the text above says the sorting is based on the byte representation of the key.
 --VERIFIER NOTES-- 
   This report has been rejected because this is a change in documented behavior
that would require working groupconsensus.  That said, this was taken into account
by the working group during the production of the updated version of RFC 7049.