Re: ForCES protocol BNF expression on MAIN-TLV?

Jamal Hadi Salim <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:19:47 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.forces
Organization ZNYX Networks
Message-ID <1161879587.5224.32.camel@jzny2>
Hi Fenggen,

On Thu, 2006-26-10 at 10:44 +0800, Jia Fenggen wrote:
> In the protocol draft version 8,the ForCES message are dipicted using BNF 
> which has the following layout:
> PL level PDU := MAINHDR [MAIN-TLV]
>    MAIN-TLV := [LFBselect-TLV] / [REDIRECT-TLV] /
>                [ASResult-TLV] / [ASTreason-TLV]
> from that,I can make sure that there can be at most one LFBselect-TLV in a 
> forces message,but we have told the user that in order to faciliate the 
> operation of batch,we can target mulitple LFBs in one ForCES message which 
> means multiple LFBselect-TLVs,so if we really mean that,should we express 
> it clearly in BNF,I am not a BNF expert,so i don't know whether the 
> expression in the protocol draft is valid for us,is it possible to rewrite 
> MAIN-TLV as follows: 
>    MAIN-TLV := 1*[LFBselect-TLV] / [REDIRECT-TLV] /
>                [ASResult-TLV] / [ASTreason-TLV]
> If there are some mistakes,sorry for my ignorance.

This is a good catch, thank you. Please open a ticket for it. 


cheers,
jamal