Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-08.txt> (OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions) to Proposed Standard

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On the question of Floating-Point, there is now 754-2008, which is a
tighter spec and is used in RFC6340.

At a tangent, the issue of floating-point support has surfaced a number
of times in YANG and, to date, has always been rejected, reckoning that
suppport for 64-bit decimal is adequate for data modelling.  The
interactions with XPath (which is used as a basis for YANG constraint
statements), where floating-point is allowed, have caused a number of
discussions, some ongoing, about the comparison of a floating-point
number to a 64-bit decimal one. Something to be aware of should you ever
want to model this in YANG.

Tom Petch


----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Farrel" <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions.all@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ospf@xxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 11:07 PM

> All,
>
> I reviewed this document as AD and found a few small points that I
have asked
> the authors to address as IETF last call comments.
>
> Adrian
>
> ===
>
> Please look for places where you have "proposed" something and change
> that to "defined".
>
> ---
>
> It would be good to include a reference for encoding floating point
> integers. The usual is (I think)...
>
>         IEEE, "IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic",
>         Standard 754-1985, 1985 (ISBN 1-5593-7653-8).
>
> ---
>
> Section 4.2.5
>
>    Implementations MAY also permit the configuration of a static (non
>    dynamic) offset value (in microseconds) to be added to the measured
>    delay value, to facilitate the communication of operator specific
>    delay constraints.
>
> On the third reading I got it! I'm slow (I have a high delay :-)
>
> The point here is that the measured value and the static value are
added
> together and the sum is transmitted in this field. I'd suggest...
>
>    Implementations MAY also permit the configuration of a static (non
>    dynamic) offset value (in microseconds) to be added to the measured

>    delay value before encoding into this TLV, to facilitate the
>    communication of operator specific delay constraints.
>
> Similarly in 4.2.6.
>
> ---
>
> 4.2.7 appears out of sequence. But since it repeats the content of
> 4.2.4 I suggest you merge them and talk about the plurality of fields.
>
> ---
>
> Section 7
>
> "Sections 6 and 7 provide" should be 5 and 6.
>
> ---
>
> Section 10
>
>    "As per (RFC3630), unrecognized TLVs should be silently ignored"
>
> There has been confusion about what 3630 means by "silently ignored".
> In particular, some enthusiastic implementations thought this meant
the
> TLVs should be stripped from the LSA before it is propagated. I think
it
> is worth the few words to explicitly state that this is not the case.
>
> ---
>
> Section 13
>
> RFC 4203 is used in a normative way, please move it to the other
> section.
>
>
>





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