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

Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> Thu, 08 October 2020 22:31 UTC

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From: Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>
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Subject: Re: New Version Notification for draft-troan-6man-universal-ra-option-03.txt
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 00:31:50 +0200
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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:
>> Which is why the objects are described in CDDL. 
> 
> That’s lovely, but then why not just compile the CDDL into a TLV parser?

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?

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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