capability codes will soon be in short supply. Use a bit set in your capability 
to indicate the "sub capabilities".

--
Jakob Heitz.

On Dec 6, 2012, at 8:47 PM, "Randy Bush" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Just noticed that two capabilities are defined in the draft.  They 
>> actually can and should be combined into one, something like:
>> 
>>                     0   1   2   3        4    5   6   7
>>                  +---------------------------------------+
>>                  | Version          |    S    R  Reserved|
>>                  +---------------------------------------+
>>                  |                                       |
>>                  |                 AFI                   |
>>                  |                                       |
>>                  +---------------------------------------+
>> 
>> where  S is for sending, and R for receiving.
>> 
>> As you know, the number space for the capability code is only one byte.  
>> There is no need to waste.
> 
> [ confeesion: enke, matt, and i discussed this offline and matt and i
>  have asked to push to list ]
> 
> matt pointed out that, in amsterdam, we went from one cap to two because
> sra said don't create cases you do not want to handle, namely the above
> with S=R=0
> 
> the suggestion now is that it is worth saving the code point and to just
> treat that case as if the cap was not received.
> 
> what do folk think?
> 
> randy
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