Re: ipv6 was Re: LC model draft draft-ietf-forces-model-07.txt

KEYDATA can be anything.  It can be a simple integer.  It can be a 
string.  It can be an entire struct.

Basically, when we decided to allow content based element selection, 
we concluded that we could not restrict the type of content that 
served as the key.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

At 07:47 AM 10/26/2006, tom.petch wrote:
>So is there any constraint on what type of data a KEYDATA can be?  I was
>assuming it would be numeric of fixed length but you are suggesting it can be
>(almost) anything.  I note that the examples I see in -protocol are type u32.
>
>Tom Petch
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 1:26 PM
>Subject: Re: ipv6 was Re: LC model draft draft-ietf-forces-model-07.txt
>
> > IP addresses (like MAC addresses) should use the byte[N] construct to
> > represent the string of bytes for the address.  (A variable length
> > address would use octetstring[N].)  So IPv4 addresses use byte[4],
> > and IPv6 addresses use byte[16].
> >
> > Yours,
> > Joel M. Halpern
> >
> > At 03:22 PM 10/25/2006, tom.petch wrote:
> > >How are ipv6 addresses represented in the data model?  Should there be an
> > >int128??
> > >
> > >Tom Petch
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Patrick Droz" <[email protected]>
> > >To: <[email protected]>
> > >Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:36 AM
> > >Subject: LC model draft draft-ietf-forces-model-07.txt
> > >
> > >
> > > > I would like to issue last call on the model draft. As this is
> > > > a fairly large document the LC will last for 3 weeks and will
> > > > therefore end just before the next IETF. It is draft:
> > > > draft-ietf-forces-model-07.txt
> > > > and can be found at:
> > > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-forces-model-07.txt
> > > >
> > > > A number of people have indicated that if the document is in
> > > > LC they would thoroughly review the document. I hope people will
> > > > stick to their promises.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Patrick
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >