Re: Protocol Draft - KEYINFO-TLV

["Wang,Weiming" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Evangelos,

From the contecptual point of view,  the KeyID is a type of  "IDs" as explained in p.45, which occupying the same length (32bits). Whereas, I agree that applying a text like KeyID(32bits)  in the KeyID term explanation paragraph might make things more clear. 

On the graph description of the Path-Data-TLV, I just think current BNF is a clear and efficient method. At the time we chose the BNF, we had made some considerations like the inefficiency for graph to describe duplicate TLVs case and the self-contained TLV case. 

Thanks a lot for the careful review.

Thanks,
Weiming

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Evangelos Haleplidis" <[e-mail]>

> Greetings,
> 
> My question was what the size of the KeyID, in terms of the protocol
> message, is. Are the KeyIDs 4 bytes long? I couldn't find any specification
> in the protocol draft, and I believe there should be one in there, or an
> explanation of how to get it. Or is it derived by the KeyInfoTLV's L value?
> I couldn't find a text that explains that also. 
> 
> Also, how many keys can there be in an array? Will there be more than 127
> (1byte)? Is there a need for 4 bytes? Since for each array we can have
> individual numbering.
> 
> Regards,
> Evangelos Haleplidis.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Forwarding and Control Element Separation
> [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Joel M. Halpern
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:05 AM
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> Subject: Re: Protocol Draft - KEYINFO-TLV
> 
> The KeyData is, I believe a FULLDATA TLV, as it can be any form of data, and
> may need its own length.
> 
> The KeyID is an ID, as defined in the model.  There can be multiple keys,
> each made up of multiple values.  The keyid tells you wha tkey is being
> used.  Please look at the model and let us know if there is a need for more
> text on that.
> 
> Yours,
> Joel M. Halpern
> 
> Evangelos Haleplidis wrote:
>> Greetings again to the list,
>> 
>> I have some comment regarding the KEYINFO-TLV.
>> 
>> 1. As with the PathData TLV there was no Graph, so I made up one. I 
>> include it in the end of the mail.
>> 2. About the KeyID, it is not specified specific in the document what 
>> the size is. I guess it is an integer, shouldn't it be specified for
> clarity?
>> How many Keys may exist for a specific table? Could/Should the KeyID 
>> be limited to less than 4 bytes?
>> 3. In Page 45 it is written:
>>        KEYINFO-TLV := KeyID FULLDATA-TLV Shouldn't it be changed to:
>>        KEYINFO-TLV := KeyID KEYDATA
>>        KEYDATA := FULLDATA-TLV
>> Or
>>        KEYINFO-TLV := KeyID KeyData
>> This would be in accordance with the examples also in the appendix.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Evangelos Haleplidis.
>> 
>> ===============================
>> KeyInfo-TLV Graph
>> 
>>      0                   1                   2                   3
>>      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
>>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>     |        Type = KeyInfo         |               Length          |
>>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>     |                             KeyID                             |
>>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>>     |                            KeyData                            |
>>     .                                                               .
>>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>> 
>> 
>