Protocol Draft - KEYINFO-TLV

[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-----
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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                            |
>     .                                                               .
>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>
>