oops!

John Krawczyk <jkrawczy@baynetworks.com> Wed, 24 May 1995 16:09 UTC

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Subject: oops!
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Sorry if my last post generates a lot of confusion - the result SEQ
in Radha's example had the order of the ASes wrong and I propagated
the mistake.  So to correct myself...

Radha's text:

     [SEQ  #3  0002  0005  0004] 
                                ==> [SEQ #3 0001 0004 0002] [SET #2 0003  0005]
     [SEQ  #3  0002  0003  0004] 

This violates 9.2.4.2 because _0004_ cannot precede 0005 or 0003.  But
it is also illegal to put 0004 in from of 0002 in the SEQ.

The alternatives are therefore:

	[SEQ #2 0001 0002] [SET #3 0003  0005  0004]

	[SEQ #2 0001 0002] [SET #2 0003  0005] [SEQ #1 0004]

And the lesson is not to answer email the day after a vacation day :)
(by that rule, I should not be sending this either :).

-jj