Re: [babel] Info Model: router-id as base64
"STARK, BARBARA H" <bs7652@att.com> Thu, 11 October 2018 22:58 UTC
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From: "STARK, BARBARA H" <bs7652@att.com>
To: 'Carsten Bormann' <cabo@tzi.org>
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Subject: Re: [babel] Info Model: router-id as base64
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> From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> > > On Oct 12, 2018, at 00:43, STARK, BARBARA H <bs7652@att.com> wrote: > > > > This is the first of several emails I'm sending out asking for WG feedback on > some info model questions. > > > > I've gotten a couple of people questioning the use of base64 data type for > the router-id. Since the router-id is more properly just an arbitrary 64 bits, > might it make better sense to represent this as just 64 bits? I’ve also had hex > suggested. > > In an information model, you want to talk about what it *Is*, not how it could > be represented. > Base64 or Base16 (a.k.a. hex) are non-starters here. > Is it a number, or is it a byte string? babel-rfc6126bis says the router-id "is an arbitrary string of 8 octets". So I'd say it's a byte string. Barbara > Grüße, Carsten >
- [babel] Info Model: router-id as base64 STARK, BARBARA H
- Re: [babel] Info Model: router-id as base64 Carsten Bormann
- Re: [babel] Info Model: router-id as base64 STARK, BARBARA H
- Re: [babel] Info Model: router-id as base64 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen