Re: [mpls] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-relay-reply-10: (with COMMENT)

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 30/09/15 19:50, George Swallow (swallow) wrote:
> Lizhong, Stephen,
> 
> Perhaps less in more!
> 
> 
>   Destination Address Offset: the offset in octets from the top-of-stack
>   to the destination address entry.

That might be better yes. Maybe with a forward pointer to the 4.x
sections that clarify it.

S

> 
> 
> Lizhong –
> 
> There are several places in the draft where the term "destination address” should be "destination address entry”
> 
> It would also be good to add a column to the table on page 6 indicating the size of each entry
> 
> Null              4
> 
> IPv4      8
> 
> IPv6    20
> 
> George
> 
> From: Lizhong Jin <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
> Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 11:57 AM
> To: Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
> Cc: The IESG <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, mpls-chairs <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-relay-reply <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, "[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
> Subject: Re: Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-relay-reply-10: (with COMMENT)
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> See inline below. Thanks.
> 
> Lizhong
> 
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> Stephen Farrell has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-relay-reply-10: No Objection
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> 
> - 3.2: The description of the destination address offset isn't
> clear to me. If this is some common thing in MPLS though, that's
> fine. If not, maybe it'd be worth being clearer here.
> (It does become clear later though, so this is a nit.)
> 
> [Lizhong] I read several times, and try to make it more clear as below:
> 
> Destination Address Offset: an offset (octets) to indicate the
>       position of the Relayed Address Entry which is also the
> 
>       destination address of the Reply or Relayed Reply message.
> 
>       E.g., to point the first entry on the top of the Stack of
> 
>       Relayed Addresses will have offset of 0, and to point to
> 
>       the second entry will have offset of the length of the first entry.
> 
>