Re: A counter-proposal for option 127

David Lapp <lapp@waterloo.hp.com> Mon, 19 February 1996 04:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: A counter-proposal for option 127
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> 
> There is one difference between your two proposals: Dave suggests wrapping
> multiple extended subcodes in one instance of option 127, while Shawn
> suggests encoding each subcode option separately.  In the interests of
> simplicity, I'd lean towards encoding each separately, but either way is
> OK.
> 
> How about (from Shawn's message):
> 
>     Code   Len     Option      Data...
>    +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----
>    | 127 |  n  |  oh |  ol |  d1 |  d2 | ...
>    +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----
> 
I've got no strong feelings about putting multiple subcodes in
the wrapper. Shawn's suggestion sounds fine to me.

Dave L.