[trill] Alissa Cooper's Discuss on draft-ietf-trill-smart-endnodes-10: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Alissa Cooper <[e-mail]>]

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DISCUSS:
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This should hopefully be easy to fix and was pointed out by the Gen-ART
reviewer:

All of section 4.3 is confusing as to what the length of the TLV really is.
Row 3 in the diagram says 2 bytes or 4 bytes, but the number of bits called out
in bullets 4 and 5 below it don't seem to add up to those things. Maybe it would
be better to draw a diagram with F=0 and a separate diagram with F=1.

Please make it clear both in the diagram and in the text what the expected
lengths of the fields are -- I find it particularly confusing that the number
of bits pictured doesn't align with the number of bits specified in the text
per field.


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COMMENT:
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Please also look at the Gen-ART reviewer's other comments.