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Re: New Version Notification for draft-troan-6man-universal-ra-option-03.txt

Brian Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 09 October 2020 01:02 UTC

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From: Brian Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:02:38 +1300
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Subject: Re: New Version Notification for draft-troan-6man-universal-ra-option-03.txt
To: Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>
Cc: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>, ipv6@ietf.org
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The big difference is that CBOR items are self-describing and TLVs are not.

Regards
    Brian
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On Fri, 9 Oct 2020, 11:32 Ole Troan, <otroan@employees.org> wrote:

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> On 9 Oct 2020, at 00:19, Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 8, 2020, at 6:17 PM, Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> wrote:
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> Which is why the objects are described in CDDL.
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> That’s lovely, but then why not just compile the CDDL into a TLV parser?
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> The idea here is to allow users of the option to use existing tools and
> libraries. Shouldn’t we all be tired of hand crafting C code to parse
> packets by now?
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> If you want to build a toolset around a modeling language and TLV
> representations to compete with CDDL, CBOR, JSON feel free. But I don’t
> think you should expect us to wait for you. :-)
>
> Ole
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