On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Spies, Sebastian Martin wrote:
> The AFI of ROAIPAddress (defined in 3. The ROA eContent of
> draft-ietf-sidr-roa-format) is of type OCTET STRING (SIZE (2..3)). For which
> reason is it necessary to have a variable AFI size? We are having just two
> values 0001 and 0002 and it is unlikely to see new address families at a
> count that exceeds 2^16. So why should there be a third byte?
I believe this is represented the same way as it is in RFC 3779. Section 2.3.3:
IPAddressFamily ::= SEQUENCE { -- AFI & optional SAFI --
addressFamily OCTET STRING (SIZE (2..3)),
ipAddressChoice IPAddressChoice }
-andy
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