On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 01:35:02PM +0100, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 13:16 +0100, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> > Lada,
> > 
> > RFC 7950 says:
> > 
> >    The "position" statement, which is optional, takes as an argument a
> >    non-negative integer value that specifies the bit's position within a
> >    hypothetical bit field.  The position value MUST be in the range 0 to
> >    4294967295, and it MUST be unique within the bits type.
> > 
> > Neither the XML nor the JSON encoding rulse uses the position
> > property.  I believe the interpretation of the position field is going
> > to be protocol specific. DNS may do things in its own way, a CBOR
> > encoding of bits may do a different thing.
> 
> So do you suggest to keep the position equal to the number in the IANA 
> registry?
>

That seems to be the most obvious thing to do.

/js

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