Last Call Review of draft-sgtatham-secsh-iutf8-05
review-sgtatham-secsh-iutf8-05-opsdir-lc-brownlee-2017-03-01-00

Hi all:

I have performed an Operations Directorate review of
   draft-sgtatham-secsh-iutf8-05

  "This document updates RFC 4254 by specifying a new opcode in the
   Secure Shell terminal modes encoding.  The new opcode describes the
   widely used IUTF8 terminal mode bit, which indicates that terminal
   I/O uses the UTF-8 character encoding."

This is a very short draft, all it does is add an entry in the IANA
SSH Pseudo-Terminal Encoded Terminal Modes registry (one of the
subregistries for Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol Parameters).

That seems a useful addition to SSH's terminal modes, and one that
should not cause interoperability problems.

It's Security Considerations section is minimal; maybe it would
be good to point out potential 'Internationalization' risks?
However, I can't suggest a suitable reference for that.

Other than that, this draft is ready for publication.

Cheers, Nevil

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