Re: [bess] Encoding a 20 bit label in a 24 bit field.

["Rabadan, Jorge (Nokia - US/Mountain View)" <[e-mail]>]

I personally agree that it is good to make this explicit (although many implementations already interpreted it this way).
Thanks,
Jorge


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From: BESS <[e-mail]> on behalf of "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <[e-mail]>
Date: Monday, October 15, 2018 at 3:22 PM
To: BESS <[e-mail]>
Subject: [bess] Encoding a 20 bit label in a 24 bit field.

    We have proposed the following erratum for RFC 7432.
    
    Opinions?
    
    Regards,
    Jakob.
    
    
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    Cc: Krishnamoorthy Arumugham (karumugh) <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]; [e-mail]
    Subject: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7432 (5523)
    
    The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7432,
    "BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN".
    
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    You may review the report below and at:
    http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5523
    
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    Type: Technical
    Reported by: Krishnamoorthy Arumugham <[e-mail]>
    
    Section: 7
    
    Original Text
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    Clarifications to following sub-sections:
    Section 7.1
    Section 7.2
    Section 7.5
    
    
    Corrected Text
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    Section 7.1:
    Add below text to the section 7.1 regarding the encoding 
    of MPLS label:
    
    "The value of the 20-bit MPLS label is encoded in the 
    high-order 20 bits of the 3 bytes MPLS Label field."
    
    Section 7.2:
    Add below text to the section 7.2 regarding the encoding
    of both the MPLS label fields:
    
    "The value of the 20-bit MPLS label is encoded in the 
    high-order 20 bits of the 3 bytes MPLS Label field for
    both MPLS Label1 and MPLS Label2."
    
    Section 7.5:
    Add below text to the section 7.5 regarding the encoding
    of ESI Label fields:
    
    "The value of the 20-bit MPLS label is encoded in the 
    high-order 20 bits of the ESI Label field."
    
    
    Notes
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    MPLS label is a 20-bit value and is stored in a 3 bytes field in a packet. The 20-bit MPLS label value is generally stored in higher order 20 bits of the 3 byte label field. The exact encoding to be followed for storing MPLS label values are not explicitly mentioned in the RFC 7432 under section 7.1, 7.2 and 7.5 for different types of EVPN routes. This lead to ambiguity in different implementations. Hence a clarification is required.
    
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    RFC7432 (draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11)
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    Title               : BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
    Publication Date    : February 2015
    Author(s)           : A. Sajassi, Ed., R. Aggarwal, N. Bitar, A. Isaac, J. Uttaro, J. Drake, W. Henderickx
    Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
    Source              : Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks
    Area                : Routing
    Stream              : IETF
    Verifying Party     : IESG
    
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