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

Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-6@u-1.phicoh.com> Thu, 08 October 2020 14:03 UTC

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>(I happen to have written a Python package to simulate loads() and dumps() 
>for TLVs. That made it possible to play with a direct comparison between
>coding a CBOR application or a TLV application for the same purpose.
>If you care, https://github.com/becarpenter/tlv )

I'm confused. Do you feel this code is typical for an RA implementation on
an embedded system?

I.e., does a typical embedded system implement RA in python? Does a 
typical embedded system parse RAs using a generic load dump mechanism?

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