Re: [Cbor] I-D Action: draft-ietf-cbor-network-addresses-02.txt

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Wed, 09 June 2021 14:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] I-D Action: draft-ietf-cbor-network-addresses-02.txt
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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    > I just had occasion to check RFC 8992 (should have done that earlier, ouch).

    > prefval /= pref6val
    > pref6val = [version6, length, ?prefix]
    > version6 = 6
    > length = 0..128             ; requested or offered prefix length
    > prefix = bytes .size 16     ; offered prefix in binary format

    > prefval /= pref4val
    > pref4val = [version4, length4, ?prefix4]
    > version4 = 4
    > length4 = 0..32             ; requested or offered prefix length
    > prefix4 = bytes .size 4     ; offered prefix in binary format

    > Maybe we should supply some CDDL in draft-ietf-cbor-network-addresses
    > so people don’t start to copy the above whenever they need a prefix.

I dont object.... but don't we need #include first :-)