Re: [dhcwg] Review request for draft-ietf-dhc-host-gen-id

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Thu, 29 March 2012 13:53 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
To: Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu@gmail.com>, "dhcwg@ietf.org" <dhcwg@ietf.org>
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> If not it should say so, and eventually encoding on 6bit instead of 8,
> maybe.

DHCP doesn't do bitfields.   However, I think that the width of the prefix is _always_ 64, so maybe we don't need to include a length at all?