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Re: [radext] radius-fragmentation: New flag T field for the Long Extended Type

Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> Tue, 04 March 2014 15:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [radext] radius-fragmentation: New flag T field for the Long Extended Type
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lionel.morand@orange.com wrote:
> The question is simple: how do we ensure that another draft will not allocate the same 2nd bit to another feature? It would mean that the same Long-extended-type attribute would have two possible interpretations/process...

  I think we're safe with manual tracking.  I don't see any other draft
allocating the same bit.

> Are we only relying on living memories? :)

  The documents are available on a public web page as part of the RFC
process.

> Maybe we don't care because it is an experimental document... or maybe this doc will update the RFC6929 to indicate that the 2nd bit is used for "T".

  We can't have an experimental draft update a standards track document.

  Alan DeKok.

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