Re: [sfc] TTL field within the NSH base header

"Andrew G. Malis" <agmalis@gmail.com> Thu, 27 April 2017 21:00 UTC

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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:55:53 -0400
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Subject: Re: [sfc] TTL field within the NSH base header
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Jim,

In that case, you need to remove the word “reserved” from the replacement
text.

Cheers,
Andy


On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Jim Guichard <jguichard1966@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes but I also counted the other 3 bits that were reserved and are now
> allocated..
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 4:25 PM Andrew G. Malis <agmalis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jim,
>>
>> The replacement text says:
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>>    There are eight reserved bits in the NSH Base Header. New bits
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>>    are assigned via Standards Action [RFC5226].
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>> There are now actually five reserved bits.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
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>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 2:54 PM, James N Guichard <
>> james.n.guichard@huawei.com> wrote:
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>>> Dear WG:
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>>> Having reviewed all of the email discussion on the mailing list it
>>> appears to the chairs that we have consensus to add a TTL field to the NSH
>>> base header. We would like to propose the following changes:
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>>> Section 3.2:
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>>> Update figure 2 as follows:
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>>>      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
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>>>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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>>>     |Ver|O|R|    TTL    |   Length  |R|R|R|R|MD Type| Next Protocol |
>>>
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>>>     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
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>>> Add the following text after figure 2:
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>>> TTL: Service plane time-to-live. An SFF MUST decrement the TTL by a
>>> value of 1 for all NSH packets it receives. Decrementing by a value of 1
>>> from 0 shall result in a TTL value of 63. The default for originating an
>>> NSH packet is a TTL value
>>>
>>> of 63. The decrement SHALL occur before testing for 0. After decrement,
>>> if the TTL is 0, the NSH packet MUST NOT be forwarded.
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>>> Section 3.4:
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>>> Update figure 4 to reflect the new base header format as per section 3.2
>>> base header.
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>>> Section 3.5:
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>>> Update figure 5 to reflect the new base header format as per section 3.2
>>> base header.
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>>> Section 12.2.1:
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>>> Current text is as follows:
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>>>    There are ten bits at the beginning of the NSH Base Header.  New bits
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>>>    are assigned via Standards Action [RFC5226].
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>>>    Bits 0-1 - Version
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>>>    Bit 2 - OAM (O bit)
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>>>    Bit 3 - Critical TLV (C bit)
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>>>    Bits 4-9 - Reserved
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>>> Replace entire text as follows:
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>>>    There are eight reserved bits in the NSH Base Header. New bits
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>>>    are assigned via Standards Action [RFC5226].
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>>>    Bits 0-1 - Version
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>>>    Bit 2 - OAM (O bit)
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>>>    Bit 3 - Reserved
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>>>    Bits 16-19 - Reserved
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>>> Section 12.2.3:
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>>> Current text has the MD-type as 8-bit values.
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>>> Update text for this section and table 1 to reflect 4-bit values *not*
>>> 8-bit values.
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>>> *Please review carefully and indicate support for these changes (or any
>>> changes to the suggested text).*
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>>> Thanks,
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>>> Jim & Joel
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