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Re: [Bier] clarification in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-bier-architecture-08

"Acee Lindem (acee)" <acee@cisco.com> Mon, 30 October 2017 13:53 UTC

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From: "Acee Lindem (acee)" <acee@cisco.com>
To: matecs <matecs@niif.hu>, "bier@ietf.org" <bier@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [Bier] clarification in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-bier-architecture-08
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Subject: Re: [Bier] clarification in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-bier-architecture-08
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Csaba, 

Note that big endian format is referred to as “Network Byte Order” for a
reason and every IETF document does not have to respecify this. Also, this
is specified as the preferred order in section 3.12 of RFC 2360.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2360.txt

Thanks,
Acee 

On 10/30/17, 1:38 AM, "BIER on behalf of matecs" <bier-bounces@ietf.org on
behalf of matecs@niif.hu> wrote:

>hi,
>i'm developing bier for freerouter.nop.hu, and during this process,
>i found that bitstring encoding is not fully clarified in the drafts.
>especially, the byte order of bitstring is not specified anywhere.
>so allow me to suggest a small addition to the arch draft
>to section 3, below the current two bullets, a third one:
>
>* BitString encoding is big endian (msb) on the wire. It means that
>   if you have to send to BFR-id 1, then you have to set the lowest
>   bit in the last byte in the BitString.
>
>thanks,
>csaba mate
>niif/hungarnet
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