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

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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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 






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