[Babel-users] TLV and sub-TLV space: allocation policy

Denis Ovsienko infrastation at yandex.ru
Wed Jul 2 14:54:42 UTC 2014


> I'm open to discussion, but I'm planning
> 
> 0-127: Specification Required
> 128-144: Experimental Use
> 145-254: Specification Required
> 255: Reserved
> 
> The idea about the Experimental range is that it should be easy to decode
> by sight in a hexdump. Hence the choice of values.

It would also be possible to delegate experimental range detection to protocol analyzers as soon as the registry has been settled. It could be printed like this:

Experimental-0xNN, Length MM

(that's similar to TCP option codes printing in tcpdump)

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko



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