The following reply was made to PR bin/10206; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: tech-security@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: security/10206 - proposed solution (concept)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:38:28 +0200

 On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Alan Barrett wrote:
 > I'd prefer to see keywords like "required", "optional" and "prohibited",
 > rather than "yes" and "no".
 
 Actually, the prohibited/optional/required status could just be implied
 by the numeric ranges, but then you'd have to use "0 means 0", not "0
 means infinity".  For example, "upper: 0" could mean "prohibited";
 "upper: 1-*" could mean "1 or more required"; "upper: 1-3" could mean
 "at least 1, but no more than 3"; "upper: 0-*" could mean "any number,
 zero or more".
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)