Good catch Tom, Acee, the trick is to go to 6340 and look in the references :-) [IEEE.754.2008] Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, "Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic", IEEE Standard 754, August 2008. A > -----Original Message----- > From: Acee Lindem (acee) [mailto:acee@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 12 December 2014 18:14 > To: t.p. > Cc: adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxx; draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions.all@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-08.txt> (OSPF Traffic > Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions) to Proposed Standard > > Hi Tom, > > On Dec 12, 2014, at 1:08 PM, t.p. <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On the question of Floating-Point, there is now 754-2008, which is a > > tighter spec and is used in RFC6340. > > What is 754-2008? > > Thanks, > Acee > > > > > > > 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. > >> > >> > >> > >