Hi Julien
At the moment, the L bit is simply called "the L bit" (not "limit" or
"limitless") and is defined like this:
* L: A PCC sets this bit to 1 to indicate that it does not impose
any limit on the MSD.
Although it might be the opposite of what you'd expect, I think the definition
is nevertheless clear as it is written.
Cheers
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Julien Meuric <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, 7 January, 2019 9:37 AM
To: Jeff Tantsura <[email protected]>
Cc: Dhruv Dhody <[email protected]>; Jonathan Hardwick
<[email protected]>; Martin Vigoureux
<[email protected]>; The IESG <[email protected]>;
[email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Martin Vigoureux's No Objection on
draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-14: (with COMMENT)
Hi Jeff,
You're right. I certainly don't want to change the specification, nor to add
another ambiguity. I was just looking for a mnemonic to mitigate the confusion
pointed out by Martin, to be considered between bracket (leaving the definition
as is).
Would "limit-blind" make sense?
Cheers,
Julien
On 06/01/2019 20:20, Jeff Tantsura wrote:
> Hi Julien,
>
> Happy New Year to you too.
> There’s a slight difference between limitless (e.g. unlimited) and
> limit has not been been imposed (not configured/unknown/etc).
> I think “limitless” doesn’t convey the exact meaning. In simple terms
> - if L=1, don’t use MSD as a constraint in the path computation.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 02:28 <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hi guys and happy new year! :-)
>
> Would it temper the confusion below if we added the term
> "limitless" to
> the L flag definition (section 5.1.1.)?
>
> My 2 cents,
>
> Julien
>
>
> On 21/12/2018 18:14, Jonathan Hardwick wrote:
> > I believe it is too late to change but I find L=1 meaning "no
> limit" is *very* confusing. For me L stands for Limit and when L=1
> there is a limit, when L=0 there is none.
> >
> > [Jon] Agree, both that it is confusing and too late to change
> :-)
>
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