Subject: RE: Hop Count TLV

From: Jeff Parker <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:09:19 -0500

> Maksymilian Milkowski,
> 
>     You're not exactly wrong.  But be aware of the
> (expanded) meaning of _T_ype-_L_ength-_V_alue.
> There are lots of  TLV types with well defined length
> associated with the type.  
> 
> Eric Gray

Maksymilian -
	Adding the length to every TLV makes it easy to
add new types, as an implementation can skip fields it
does not understand.  Adding the length also makes the 
parsing logic very simple.  This flexibility and 
simplicity would be lost if some of the TLVs were 
just TVs.  

- jeff parker
- Axiowave Networks

> > HC Value is described as "1 octet unsigned integer hop 
> > count value". OK Length field is not described and i 
> > have doubts whether it is needed -
> >
> > Maksymilian Milkowski