[CCAMP] Magnus Westerlund's Discuss on draft-ietf-ccamp-rsvp-te-bandwidth-availability-14: (with DISCUSS)

Magnus Westerlund via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> Mon, 08 April 2019 10:13 UTC

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Subject: [CCAMP] Magnus Westerlund's Discuss on draft-ietf-ccamp-rsvp-te-bandwidth-availability-14: (with DISCUSS)

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DISCUSS:
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Section 3.1:

      Availability (4 octets): a 32-bit floating point number describes
      the decimal value of availability requirement for this bandwidth
      request. The value MUST be less than 1and is usually expressed in
      the value of 0.99/0.999/0.9999/0.99999.

It appears that this format has some very clear limitations when it comes to
store availability numbers. Assuming that this 32-bit float is an IEEE-754
representation which should be explicitly stated.

In that case representing availabilities higher than 0.999999 starts to
introduce significant errors in relation to intended precision. Intended value
Error                                             Actual value 0.999999        
 -1.3278961181640625E-8              0.999998986721038818359375 0.9999999      
 -1.920928955078125E-8                0.99999988079071044921875 0.99999999     
1E-8                                                   1 (Which is not allowed)

So at a minimal the limitations for what is practical to express needs to be
provided. Secondly, are this range sufficient in all cases?

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