Robert/Tony - I think this relates to a point discussed during Adrian's RTGDIR review. Adrian made the point that:
"... that the split between component TLVs MUST be done at a sub-TLV or other unit boundary." I had suggested text (but not actually added it to the latest version of the draft): “Each TLV that is part of an MP-TLV MUST be parsable independent of other TLVs in the MP-TLV. Breaking of a single sub-TLV or other data unit across TLVs MUST NOT be done.” Perhaps adding that text would help. Tony, of course, is also correct. He is saying just as we can split a top level TLV into multiple TLVs, we can also split any level of sub-TLV into multiple TLVs - the restriction being that the splitting MUST be done on a parsable boundary i.e., it cannot be required to have parts of another TLV in order to correctly parse any sub-TLV. Les > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Li <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tony Li > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2025 8:58 AM > To: Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> > Cc: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>; lsr <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Lsr] [Last-Call] 答复: Re: 【Can you concatenate several pieces > together without one "explicit key" to identify them belong to the same > segment】Re: Rtgdir last call review of draft-ietf-lsr-multi-tlv-08 > > > Robert, > > > So it was very clear that we MUST skip what we do not recognize :) I was > > not > sure if we should at that point bail out from further parsing of a given TLV > or > trying next sub-TLV. I guess there is no mandate of that in the spec and > implementations should/may try to continue to parse. > > > You always continue to parse. Production implementations are not test suites > looking for bugs. If there is unrecognized data, then the presumption is > that it > is new functionality that the implementation does not yet understand. > Stopping parsing would break legacy behavior. > > > > Also is my understanding correct that the subject draft does not allow to > split sub-TLVs itself ? Meaning that any sub-TLV must fit one part of the > TLV. I > found some text allowing duplication of sub-TLVs in multiple parts of TLV if > sender choose to do such thing - but I assume this says that sub-TLV is still > a > complete one in each part ? > > > I’m not sure that I can parse that. :-) > > Sub-TLVs can be split into multiple sub-TLVs. If the parent TLV is full, then > parts > of the sub-TLV may be carried in separate instances of the parent TLV. > > In other words, the solution is fully recursive. > > T > _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
