Subject: [ipfix] spelling/editorial change to time data types

From: Brian Trammell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:30:18 -0500

All,

May be a bit late for this, and may also be a bit pedantic, but I'd  
like to advocate correcting the spelling of the data type names:

        3.1.11.  
dateTimeMilliSeconds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
        3.1.12.  
dateTimeMicroSeconds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
        3.1.13.  
dateTimeNanoSeconds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12

and their associated information elements:

        5.8.3.   
flowStartMilliSeconds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
        5.8.4.   
flowEndMilliSeconds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
        5.8.5.   
flowStartMicroSeconds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
        5.8.6.   
flowEndMicroSeconds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
        5.8.7.   
flowStartNanoSeconds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
        5.8.8.   
flowEndNanoSeconds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  59
        5.8.9.   
flowStartDeltaMicroSeconds  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  59
        5.8.10.  
flowEndDeltaMicroSeconds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  59
        5.8.11.  
systemInitTimeMilliSeconds  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  59
        5.10.4.  
flowDurationMilliSeconds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  67
        5.10.5.  
flowDurationMicroSeconds  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  68

in IPFIX-INFO 11 and normative references thereto in IPFIX-PROTO 17:

      6.1.7    
dateTimeMilliSeconds.....................................30
      6.1.8    
dateTimeNanoSeconds......................................30
      6.1.9    
dateTimeMicroSeconds.....................................30

Addition of an SI prefix does not cause a word break, as implied by  
the interCap spelling of these identifiers. Suggested correction is  
to make the "s" in seconds lower-case. This change would of course  
not apply to dateTimeSeconds, as there _is_ a word break before  
"Seconds" in that case.

(Incidentially, I discovered this problem while testing our  
implementation, attempting to find the flowStartMilliseconds  
(properly spelled) IE in our IE registry, which caused a runtime  
error. Other implementors and users of IPFIX may also run into the  
same problem in the future, hence this suggestion.)

Also, there are references to flowStartDeltaUseconds and  
flowEndDeltaUseconds in PROTO 19; these should be changed to  
"DeltaMicroseconds".

Regards,

Brian