RE: FW: FlowId and FlowIdOrAny

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 11:03 PM 2/3/2003 +0100, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
>> >> Just in case any of you has a comment or concern
>> >...
>> >>   FlowIdOrAny       TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
>> >>       DISPLAY-HINT "d"
>> >>       STATUS        current
>> >>       DESCRIPTION  "The flow identifier or flow lable in an IPv6
>> >>                     header that may be used to discriminate traffic
>> >>                     flows.  The value of -1 is used to indicate a
>> >>                     wildcard, i.e. any value.
>> >>                    "
>> >>       SYNTAX        Integer32 (-1 | 0..1048575)
>> >...
>> >
>.. snip ..
>
>> I'm more concerned about:
>>   - range in the SYNTAX clause should be -1..1048575
>
>Why is that? I want to indicate that -1 is a special value,
>and I have seen it done that way in other places.

This is a tiny nit that doesn't matter.  I think (A .. B) 
looks better because the range is contiguous.  The DESCRIPTION
clause is used to say why -1 is a special value.  Both ways
are legal SMI, so it doesn't matter.


>Bert 

Andy