Donald: >>> Document: draft-ietf-trill-pseudonode-nickname-05 >>> Reviewer: Russ Housley >>> Review Date: 2015-08-24 >>> IETF LC End Date: 2015-09-01 >>> IESG Telechat date: unknown >>> >>> Summary: Almost Ready >>> >>> Major Concerns: >>> >>> ... >> ... >> >>> (2) Also, in Section 5.2, Step 1, I think the intended sort order depends >>> on all >>> of the LAALP IDi values being represented with the same number of bits. >>> Since Section 9.1 provides a variable length field to carry a LAALP ID >>> value, I >>> assume that they are not always the same length. Is a step needed to >>> encode the LAALP ID to a consistent length? >> >> [MZ] The sort is done in the per-LAALP base. It's not necessary to make the >> LAALP ID to a constant length. Besides, the 'mod' function always returns a >> value in [0, k-1] whatever the length of LAALP ID is. > > We could add "considering System ID and LAALP ID as byte strings".
I am not sure that is enough unless all of the System IDs are the same length. Russ _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
