Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-08.txt> (OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions) to Proposed Standard

Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Fri, 12 December 2014 20:30 UTC

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From: Randy Presuhn <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
To: "Acee Lindem (acee)" <acee@cisco.com>, "t.p." <daedulus@btconnect.com>
Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-08.txt> (OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions) to Proposed Standard
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Hi -

>From: "Acee Lindem (acee)" <acee@cisco.com>
>Sent: Dec 12, 2014 10:14 AM
>To: "t.p." <daedulus@btconnect.com>
>Cc: "adrian@olddog.co.uk" <adrian@olddog.co.uk>, "draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions.all@tools.ietf.org" <draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions.all@tools.ietf.org>, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
>Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-08.txt> (OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions) to Proposed Standard
>
>Hi Tom,
>
>On Dec 12, 2014, at 1:08 PM, t.p. <daedulus@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
>> On the question of Floating-Point, there is now 754-2008, which is a
>> tighter spec and is used in RFC6340.
>
>What is 754-2008? 

IEEE specification for floating point, 2008 edition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point

Randy