[Cellar] VINT_DATA of all ontes

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 07 June 2018 01:50 UTC

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Subject: [Cellar] VINT_DATA of all ontes
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ebml says in section 7:

     Additionally,
     an "Element ID" with binary encoding of "1111 1111" is invalid since
     the "VINT_DATA" section is set to all one values, whereas an "Element
     ID" with binary encoding of "0100 0000 0111 1111" stores a
     semantically equal "VINT_DATA" and is the shortest possible
     "VINT" encoding.

It seems that there is a prohibition on VINT_DATA that is all ones.
I can't find a place in section 6 that says this.  Is this a restriction on
all VINT_DATA, or just ones used for Element ID?

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