Re: Length of the Policy Type field

Thomas,

That sounds like a good idea to me.

regards,
-Qiaobing

Thomas Dreibholz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> According to the policies draft, the size of the policy type identifier is 8 
> bits. However, there are already 16 policies implemented by the rsplib 
> prototype implementation (see 
> http://tdrwww.exp-math.uni-essen.de/dreibholz/rserpool/) and it can be 
> expected that new applications require additional policies. Since the Policy 
> Parameters for each of the defined policies includes 24 reserved (i.e. 
> unused) bits after the policy type, what about extending the Policy Type to 
> 32 bits? While this would not increase the message sizes, it would give 
> implementers and users sufficient space for own extensions. Furthermore, I 
> would suggest to split the policy type space into a reserved part 
> for "standardized" policies (managed by the IANA) and a non-standard user 
> part, e.g. 0x00000000 to 0x7fffffff for registered policies and the rest for 
> user-defined ones.
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
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