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Re: [Roll] processing of multiple SRH-6LoRH

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 27 April 2016 12:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] processing of multiple SRH-6LoRH
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Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <pthubert@cisco.com> wrote:
    > When A receives the packet it must remove the first address in the SRH which
    > is self.

    > As illustrated A pops B’s compressed address from the next header (the type
    > 3) and coalesces that in the first (type 4) to get the full address of B.

    >> Why not just drop the current 6loRH here and have fewer bytes, period?

    > If we had removed the type 4 then the first SRH would have been the type 3
    > and the prefix would be lost.

okay, right, I get it.  The compression of B's address needs some bytes from A.
A single sentence to explain that would help.

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