On Wed, August 24, 2011 11:02 pm, Glen Zorn wrote: > On 8/24/2011 3:03 AM, Dan Harkins wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I noticed that the initial registry for TLV types starts out with >> three reserved numbers which is pretty odd. It says in the IANA >> Considerations (similar verbage is in the General TLV Format of >> section 4.2.1): >> >> A summary of the EAP-FAST TLV types is given below: >> >> 0 Reserved >> 1 Reserved >> 2 Reserved >> 3 Result TLV >> 4 NAK TLV >> 5 Error TLV >> et cetera >> >> Since this is the initial layout of a new registry it doesn't serve >> a purpose to have 1 and 2 "reserved". Zero I can understand, > > Can you explain it to me, because I don't ;-). All numbers except those > specifically assigned are by definition reserved, right?
That's a general convention. And zero is generally more special than the other numbers because it's in a class by itself (zero) whereas all there numbers are in the same class (non-zero). >> but not >> 1 and 2. >> >> I propose this get changed to move everything from 3 on up by 2 so >> "Result TLV" becomes 1, "NAK TLV" becomes 2, et cetera. > > I would prefer to start at 0. I would be perfectly happy with starting at 0. I'm just not happy starting at 3. Dan. _______________________________________________ Emu mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/emu
