Re: LFBLinkType's FromPortGroup definition?

Jia Fenggen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.forces
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I partially agree with you but even though filling or trimming maybe needed 
I still think we should place a max length on the name to allow the 
validation of the name on CE .I reserve the idea.
Yours,Fenggen
>From: "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: LFBLinkType's FromPortGroup definition?
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:43:07 -0400
>
>Given that the full topology is fetched only once in a great while, 
>I am not concerned with picking a representation that is easy to 
>encode.  A few bytes on the wire per link is not a big deal.
>
>Also, I do not want to mandate that the names be fixed length, since 
>then we have to mandate fill, and recommend trimming for 
>presentation to the user, etc.  All things I would rather stay away 
>from.
>
>Yours,
>Joel M. Halpern
>
>At 06:57 AM 9/26/2006, Jia Fenggen wrote:
>>In FE object LFB definition,when we describe LFB topology with 
>>LFBLinkTypes in which we define FromPortGroup as string the size of 
>>which is variable,should we use a fixed size string because when it 
>>is we have to use another FULLDATA TLV to encode each LFBLinkType? 
>>There are other places string type is used,I will not list them 
>>all.
>>             <name>LFBLinkType</name>     <synopsis>                
>>  Link between two LFB instances of topology               
>></synopsis>   <struct>                 <element elementID="1"> 
>><name>FromLFBID</name> <synopsis>LFB src</synopsis> 
>><typeRef>LFBSelectorType</typeRef> </element>                 
>><element elementID="2"> <name>FromPortGroup</name> <synopsis>src 
>>port group</synopsis> <typeRef>string</typeRef>                 
>></element>
>>
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