Re: [Idr] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-v6-19: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> Mon, 09 November 2020 04:32 UTC

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From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net>
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Subject: Re: [Idr] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-v6-19: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 12:45:09PM +0100, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> Ok 3 octets to keep byte boundary sounds reasonable indeed.

Well, the
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-rfc5575bis-27#section-4.2.1.1
'len' encoding options don't give a 3-byte option for the value field.
Which is why I was assuming 4-bytes.

-Ben