Re: [IPFIX] On Encodings in RFC5102bis
Juergen Quittek <[email protected]>
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Hi Brian,
OK. Thanks.
I'll do the write-up.
Juergen
On 20.12.12 16:30, "Brian Trammell" <[email protected]> wrote:
>hi Juergen,
>
>The current revision has these changes in it; it's ready for write-up.
>
>Thanks, cheers,
>
>Brian
>
>On 20 Dec 2012, at 16:24 , Juergen Quittek wrote:
>
>> Hi Brian and all,
>>
>> Does this mean we should delay the write-up until you have posted an
>> updated version?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> juergen
>>
>> On 17.12.12 12:04, "Andrew Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14 Dec 2012, at 14:44, Andrew Feren <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Brian,
>>>>
>>>> That all looks good.
>>>>
>>>> -Andrew
>>>>
>>>> On 12/14/2012 05:54 AM, Brian Trammell wrote:
>>>>> Greetings, all,
>>>>>
>>>>> In reviewing WGLC comments on 5101bis, specifically with respect to
>>>>> timestamp wraparound (on which I'm still working on a response), I
>>>>>had
>>>>> a look at RFC5102bis to see if the text there would be compatible
>>>>>with
>>>>> such a thing. The sections describing the POSIX-based abstract data
>>>>> types which include, unlike the others, encoding details; I would
>>>>> suggest removing the encoding details, leaving them for RFC5101bis
>>>>>(and
>>>>> alternate encodings, as in draft-trammell-ipfix-text-adt), to be
>>>>> consistent with the rest of RFC5102bis.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OLD:
>>>>>
>>>>> 3.1.15. dateTimeSeconds
>>>>>
>>>>> The data type dateTimeSeconds is an unsigned 32-bit integer
>>>>> representing the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch, 1 January
>>>>> 1970 at 00:00 UTC, as defined in [POSIX.1].
>>>>>
>>>>> 3.1.16. dateTimeMilliseconds
>>>>>
>>>>> The data type dateTimeMilliseconds is an unsigned 64-bit integer
>>>>> containing the number of milliseconds since the UNIX epoch, 1
>>>>> January
>>>>> 1970 at 00:00 UTC, as defined in [POSIX.1].
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> NEW:
>>>>>
>>>>> 3.1.15. dateTimeSeconds
>>>>>
>>>>> The data type dateTimeSeconds represents
>>>>> the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch, 1 January
>>>>> 1970 at 00:00 UTC, as defined in [POSIX.1].
>>>>>
>>>>> 3.1.16. dateTimeMilliseconds
>>>>>
>>>>> The data type dateTimeMilliseconds represents
>>>>> the number of milliseconds since the UNIX epoch, 1 January
>>>>> 1970 at 00:00 UTC, as defined in [POSIX.1].
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (The reference to [POSIX.1] remains necessary to clarify leap second
>>>>> issues; i.e., this value is can be directly derived from the system
>>>>> clock on a UNIX-like machine).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> While reviewing this, I noticed that there's one other
>>>>> encoding-specific as opposed to data-specific ADT: macAddress. I'd
>>>>> suggest the following change as well:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OLD:
>>>>>
>>>>> 3.1.12. macAddress
>>>>>
>>>>> The type "macAddress" represents a string of 6 octets.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> NEW:
>>>>>
>>>>> 3.1.12. macAddress
>>>>>
>>>>> The type "macAddress" represents a MAC-48 address.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd specify MAC-48 as opposed to EUI-48, because it's not clear that
>>>>> require global uniqueness. On this point, does anyone know of the
>>>>> correct reference to use here? I've been looking at various 802
>>>>> cross-references in RFCs but can't find anything that fits yet...
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments? Even a "looks good" would be helpful. I'd like to make this
>>>>> last change soon, so an -08 revision can be written up and sent up to
>>>>> the IESG.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Brian
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