Hi Joel, 

If you do this, don't forget RFC 9513 - 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9513/

Thanks,
Acee

> On Nov 28, 2025, at 4:24 PM, Joel Halpern <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If the AD and LSR chairs agree that an erratum is acceptable for this,  I 
> would be happy to file one.  My concern is that this does not appear to be an 
> error in the RFC, but rather an evolution in the outside conditions.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Joel
> 
> On 11/28/2025 4:12 PM, Zafar Ali (zali) wrote:
>> Hi Joel,
>> 
>> RFC9800 specifies: "CSID container:  A 128-bit IPv6 address that functions 
>> as a container holding a list of one or more CSIDs and the Argument (if any) 
>> of the last CSID."
>> You are right that as RFC9352 pre-dates RFC9800, it counts the 128-bit 
>> segment list entries in SRH in the MSD types.
>> The clarification needed is along the line that “maximum number of SIDs” in 
>> RFC9352 means “maximum number of 128-bit segment list entries"
>> IMO, such clarification can happen via a RFC9352 Errata.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Regards … Zafar
>> 
>> 
>> On 11/27/25, 6:08 AM, "Vasilenko Eduard" 
>> <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> Pay attention that RFC 9532 is the normative document, all documents in BMWG 
>> are informative.
>> 
>> 
>> I am not sure I have understood the context. I do not see the problem.
>> Compressed SID is the "SID" too.
>> 128bit entry inside the SRH is called "Segment List" in the RFC 8754.
>> Hence, no problems because names are different.
>> Eduard
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: LUIS MIGUEL CONTRERAS MURILLO
>>> <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2025 13:40
>>> To: Joel Halpern <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>; lsr 
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Cc: Giuseppe Fioccola <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>>; Paolo Volpato
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>; Bruno Decraene
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>; Vasilenko 
>>> Eduard
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Subject: RE: [Lsr] Where to clarify RFC 9352 relative to SID containers
>>> 
>>> Hi Joel,
>>> 
>>> Not sure if this would be what you are looking for (especially because is an
>>> outcome of BMWG and not LSR), but draft-ietf-bmwg-sr-bench-meth includes
>>> proposal of segment list scale testing that could serve for the purpose you
>>> comment (that is, adding maximum number of 128 bit pieces as an aspect to
>>> be considered during the benchmarking process). So maybe the point that you
>>> raise can be included here.
>>> 
>>> I copy my co-authors in case they want to complement with additional
>>> comments.
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>>> Luis
>>> 
>> Cisco Confidential
>>> -----Mensaje original-----
>>> De: Joel Halpern <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Enviado el: jueves, 27 de noviembre de 2025 11:07
>>> Para: lsr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>> Asunto: [Lsr] Where to clarify RFC 9352 relative to SID containers
>>> 
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>>> First, to be clear, what I am describing is NOT an error in RFC 9352.
>>> Thus, I don't think an erratum is the appropriate way to document for future
>>> readers this additional aspect of the intent of certain maximum segment 
>>> depth
>>> advertisements for SRv6.
>>> 
>>> RFC 9352 talks about the maximum number of SIDs. However, when SIDs are
>>> carried in compressed SID containers, the number that matters for some
>>> (maybe all?) of the maximum segment depths is the number of 128 bit
>>> pieces, not the number of SIDs. Apparently, several implementations
>>> are consistent with that. It seems a bit odd to write another RFC just to 
>>> say
>>> that. Is there some document in process that could sensibly capture this.
>>> 
>>> (As RFC 9352 predates the Compressed SID RFC it makes sense that this case 
>>> is
>>> not disucssed there.)
>>> 
>>> Yours,
>>> 
>>> Joel
>>> 
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