Hi Rob and Randy,
  Thanks. The reference to RFC6482 clarified the field for me. I leave it to 
your discretion on whether you want to add a reference or not, but I personally 
found it extremely helpful. As a followup, why is there no associated error 
checking for the Max Length field in the IPvX PDUs (to ensure the MUST NOT be 
less than Prefix Length)?

Regards
Suresh

> On Feb 14, 2017, at 10:52 PM, Rob Austein <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> At Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:34:04 -0800, Suresh Krishnan wrote:
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>> I have read through the document and I still was unable to figure out
>> what the Max Len field for the IPvX PDUs is being used for. It is defined
>> as 
>> 
>> Max Length:  An 8-bit unsigned integer denoting the longest prefix
>> allowed by the Prefix element.
>> 
>> but I was not able to find any processing rules for this. i.e. what it is
>> actually used for. An example would greatly help.
> 
> Verbatim copy of the maxLength field from RFC 6482, q.v.
> Unchanged from RFC 6810, use explained (tersely) in RFC 6811.
> 
> Perhaps references to RFC 6482 and 6811 would be appropriate?
> 

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