Re: [CCAMP] AD review of draft-ietf-ccamp-rwa-wson-encode

["Adrian Farrel" <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Well, you seem to have a half-way house.

You have specified the existence of a thing, but not how to read it.

If you wanted to make a statement that this object will only be used when it is
known that all systems in a network come from the same vendor and/or have the
same understanding of the encoding, that might be OK (although how you would
ascertain this might also need to be described).

Or you could entirely remove the vendor-specific option.

Or you could put in an OUI / enterprise number followed by transparent bytes.

Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giovanni Martinelli (giomarti) [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: 21 January 2015 21:22
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> Cc: Leeyoung; [e-mail];
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> Subject: Re: [CCAMP] AD review of draft-ietf-ccamp-rwa-wson-encode
> 
> Specifically to the Interface class here below.
> 
> In the initial draft merged to this one there was the usage of OUI however (I
> guess after chatting with Lou) we decided to remove any encoding when the
> Interface class is not standard.
> In term of semantic the protcol does not need to decode the Interface class
since
> it only assess the interface compatibility if two interfaces has a class value
that
> match two interfaces cann be connected.
> 
> Having saying that I don't have strong opinion in adding the OUI or leaving
room
> for maybe future public interfaces database. For sure there's a need to leave
> room for specific compatibility assesment since there optical multivendor
> compatibility has been already demonstrated.
> 
> hope this help .
> 
> Cheers
> G
> 
> 
> On 21 Jan 2015, at 21:57, Adrian Farrel <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> >>>
> >>> Section 4.1
> >>> How do I interpret a Vendor-Specific Application Code? Is there an OUI
> >>> I'm missing?
> >>
> >> [YOUNG] Not sure if I understood this question. What is "OUI"?
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organizationally_unique_identifier
> > http://www.iana.org/assignments/ieee-802-numbers/ieee-802-
> numbers.xhtml#ieee-802
> > -numbers-2
> >
> > Or perhaps an Enterprise Number
> > http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers/enterprise-numbers
> >
> > The question is:
> >
> > You have sections 4.1.1 through 4.1.4 to tell me how to interpret the
Optical
> > Interface Class field when it contains an ITU-T Application Mapping.
> > When I received s=0 and OI=1 it means that the Optical Interface Class
contains
> > a "Vendor Specific Optical Interface Class".
> > How do I interpret that Optical Interface Class?
> > Which vendor does it apply to?
> > Is there some information elsewhere that gives me a clue as to which vendor
> has
> > encoded the information?
> > Or is the information supposed to be encoded in the Optical Interface Class,
> > perhaps as the first 48 bits?
> > Or am I supposed to know by context?