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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Network Services Header Context Allocation Identifier Authors : Gunter Van de Velde Martin Vigoureux Praveen Mulay Filename : draft-vandevelde-sfc-nsh-length-overload-00.txt Pages : 5 Date : 2016-10-17 Abstract: The specification of the NSH MD Type 1 header [draft-ietf-sfc-nsh] mandates four Context Headers, 4-byte each, and they MUST be added immediately following the Service Path Header. As direct consequence, an NSH MD Type 1 header is always Length 0x6 (six 4-byte words). As a result, the Length field of the NSH MD Type 1 header provides an information which is known by simply looking at the "MD Type" field. However, while [draft-ietf-sfc-nsh] does not specify the encoding of these Context Headers, other specifications have started to do so. A need to distinguish types of Context Headers therefore arises. This draft proposes to overload the Length field of an NSH MD Type 1 as Meta-Data context allocation identifier and to create a IANA repository for NSH MD Type 1 allocation schemes. The NSH MD Type 1 Length field overload intends to allow universal understanding at any network location and by any network device of the context allocation structure. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vandevelde-sfc-nsh-length-overload/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-vandevelde-sfc-nsh-length-overload-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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