Re: Size matters was Re: notification charter proposal

[Phil Shafer <phil@juniper.net>]

Andy Bierman writes:
>Balazs Lengyel wrote:
>> Please dont set a max message size generally for netconf !!!
>We are discussing the notion of setting a minimum value
>that conforming implementations can use.

Setting a minimum maximum effectively sets the maximum an implementation
can count on the other side implementing, which quickly turns into
a hard restriction.

Instead we should have any message size restrictions be passed in
to the server at subscription time.  If the client gives a number
larger than the server can send, it's ignored.  If the number is
smaller, then the server must truncate.  If the number is not
provided, the server is freed from worrying about the client's
message size considerations.

>If anybody out there is planning an implementation with
>a message size bigger than 4 billion bytes, please let me know :-)

You are _so_ 32-bit, man ;^)

Thanks,
 Phil

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