Re: [Idr] Barry Leiba's No Objection on draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-v6-18: (with COMMENT)

[Susan Hares <[e-mail]>]

Barry: 

My co-authors reminded me that the WG did not really come down strongly on the offset text.  They also felt that your proposal cleans up the text.  If Christoph can put out the document before the WG draft submission deadline, you may see it in the next version.  

Thanks for the great suggestions after a fresh read on the document. 

Cheerily, Susan Hares 


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Subject: Barry Leiba's No Objection on draft-ietf-idr-flow-spec-v6-18: (with COMMENT)

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Thanks for clearing up my confusion on the DISCUSS point that I had, and for posting -18 with resolutions to that and my comments.

I’ll leave the remaining comment here for the record, leaving it for the editors to do what they think best.

   In the case Length minus Offset is 0 every address matches.  Length
   MUST always be in the range 0-128 and Length minus Offset MUST always
   be 0 or more, otherwise this component is malformed.

Is there actually value in allowing 129 ways to match every address (length=offset=0, length=offset=1, length=offset=87, and so on)?  If not, it seems less prone to error to say that length=offset=0 matches every address, and otherwise length MUST be greater than offset or the component is malformed.
 No?