Alejandro Perez Mendez wrote:
> But after your explanation, I think that we
> could either include both references (Type/Ext-Type, 3 bytes in total)
> or just refer only to the Type (1 byte). From the point of view of
> fragmentation, it could be enough to know that the attribute (e.g.
> Vendor-Specific) is fragmented, no matter the kind of Vendor Specific
> attribute we are dealing with.

  I don't understand how that would work.  My previous proposal to use a
flag field could potentially work for the new extended VSA format, too.

> I don't see why. If you find something line (CHUNKED, X, X, X, CHUNCKED,
> X, X) you can easily assumed that the first [X,X,X] is one attribute
> (X1) and the second [X,X] a different one (X2), as the five Xs do not
> appear in sequence.

  Which relies on attribute ordering.  That's a fatal flaw for any proposal.

  Alan DeKok.
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