Hi Jeff,

You're right. I certainly don't want to change the specification, nor to
add another ambiguity. I was just looking for a mnemonic to mitigate the
confusion pointed out by Martin, to be considered between bracket
(leaving the definition as is).
Would "limit-blind" make sense?

Cheers,

Julien


On 06/01/2019 20:20, Jeff Tantsura wrote:
> Hi Julien,
>
> Happy New Year to you too.
> There’s a slight difference between limitless (e.g. unlimited) and
> limit has not been been imposed (not configured/unknown/etc).
> I think  “limitless” doesn’t convey the exact meaning. In simple terms
> - if L=1, don’t use MSD as a constraint in the path computation.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 02:28 <julien.meu...@orange.com
> <mailto:julien.meu...@orange.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi guys and happy new year! :-)
>
>     Would it temper the confusion below if we added the term
>     "limitless" to
>     the L flag definition (section 5.1.1.)?
>
>     My 2 cents,
>
>     Julien
>
>
>     On 21/12/2018 18:14, Jonathan Hardwick wrote:
>     > I believe it is too late to change but I find L=1 meaning "no
>     limit" is *very* confusing. For me L stands for Limit and when L=1
>     there is a limit, when L=0 there is none.
>     >
>     > [Jon] Agree, both that it is confusing and too late to change :-)
>

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