Re: [sidr] Endianness of RTR

"Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com> Fri, 10 August 2018 18:12 UTC

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From: "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com>
To: Alberto Leiva <ydahhrk@gmail.com>, "sidr@ietf.org" <sidr@ietf.org>
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It's actually a good question, because it highlights that we don't even think about this anymore.
Perhaps https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-newman-network-byte-order-01
should be advanced to RFC.
A: Big Endian.

Regards,
Jakob.


-----Original Message-----
From: sidr <sidr-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Alberto Leiva
Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2018 2:40 PM
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Subject: [sidr] Endianness of RTR

Hi

Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but

What is the endianness of the RTR protocol? (RFCs 6810 and 8210)
And why does it seem like it's not specified in the RFCs?

Thanks
Alberto

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