Re: [Tsvwg] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-tsvwg-sctpcsum-00.txt

Ivan:

Well.. I got the reference from the same RFC you looked at :)
So an error is amplified :)

I will make both of your changes in the next pass of the document..

R

Ivan.Arias-Rodriguez@nokia.com wrote:
> 
>         Hi all!
> 
>         Because of some work I'm doing now, I was looking for the standard
> in which CRC-16 was specified... After some time I managed to get that ITU
> standard, in which both CRC-16 and CRC-32 are defined, which is ITU-T
> V.42... Then, some time later I thought that I had been quite silly since
> the reference should appear in the sctpcsum draft... So, I have gone there,
> but the reference is another one, V.41... Just because I'm so curious I have
> gone and checked that other standard and guess what I have found... The
> CRC-32 is not defined there... :-)
> 
>         It is kind of funny, since I have seen other RFCs (for example 2823)
> that use CRC-32 and they also have that reference, V.41...
> 
>         Just go and check ITU-T V.41 and try to find any reference to
> CRC-32... nothing... just CRC-16... Moreover, the definition of the CRC-16
> algorithm is not there, just the polynomial used...
> 
>         So I guess that the right document in the References section would
> be:
> 
>         [CRC-32] ITU-T Recommendation V.42, "Error-correcting procedures for
> DCEs using asynchronous-to-synchronous conversion", section 8.1.1.6.2,
> October 1996.
> 
>         One last minor thing. In the paragraph that makes the reference to
> the ITU-T standard, you can read:
> 
>         "... in [CRC-32] and uses the polynominal polynomial is (X^32..."
> 
>         Wouldn't it be better...
> 
>         "... in [CRC-32] and the used polynomial is (X^32..."   ?
> 
>         That's all folks! Thanks!
> 
>         BR Iván Arias Rodríguez
> 
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