Re: Two new Internet drafts: DIME and WS-Attachments

Hi Bob,

You are right that the connection between the description in section 2.4
is never made to the actual field element names. You are also right in
your interpretation (and that it sort of can be deduced), but what about
this clarification:

Option Elements
---------------

ELEMENT_T

The ELEMENT_T field value indicates the structure and format of the
value of the ELEMENT_DATA field of an option element (see section 2.4
for a description of DIME options). The ELEMENT_T field is an unsigned
16 bit integer with values controlled by IANA (see section 6.2 for IANA
guidelines).=20

ELEMENT_LENGTH

An unsigned 16 bit integer that specifies the length in octets of the
ELEMENT_DATA field of an option element (see section 2.4 for a
description of DIME options). Note that individual ELEMENT_DATA field
values are not padded and do not require a length which is a multiple of
4 octets (see section 3.2.11 for alignment of the OPTIONS field).

ELEMENT_DATA

The ELEMENT_DATA field carries the data of the option element identified
by the ELEMENT_T and of length indicated by the ELEMENT_LENGTH. The
ELEMENT_DATA field is not padded and the length does not have to be a
multiple of 4 octets.

>In section 3.2.11 "OPTIONS" the types of the ELEMENT_T and=20
>ELEMENT_LENGTH subfields aren't fully specified. The=20
>discussion in section 2.4 does create the impression that the=20
>option type is an unsigned integer, and I have no doubt the=20
>length is an unsigned 16 bit integer. Can this be clarified in=20
>the spec?

Makes sense?

Henrik