On 2/16/2017 3:26 PM, Tom Herbert wrote: > Admittedly, without any actual TLVs defined in Geneve all of this is > all just speculation on my part! > > Tom Agreed, and more specifically, regardless of the flexibility of TLVs in general, if the negotiation protocol specifies a fixed set of them, each with fixed, known length, then even though the TLV allows flexibility in what COULD appear, a given pair of endpoints can rely on a fixed set that is easy to parse in parallel.
That's why TLVs are a superset of bitfields; a bitfield is just a single TLV. Joe _______________________________________________ nvo3 mailing list nvo3@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3
