Re: [Nea] PA-TNC draft

[Todd Glassey <tglassey at earthlink.net>]

Randy Turner wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I know this message is a little late to the party, so take it as just 
> an informational comment/question...
>
> In the PA-TNC draft (current version), a set of primitive data types 
> are defined near the front of the document, however these data types are
> never referenced again during the definition of the attribute values.  
> For instance, OctetArray, IPv4Address, IPv6Address, VersionNum, and 
> TimeString
> are never used within the document.  They are defined, but never used 
> (in compiler speak :) It looks like the someone changed their mind 
> later in the document
> and instead of referencing existing data types, each attribute 
> definition and encoding was completely specified in each attribute 
> definition section, without any references to data types.
>
> I'm assuming it's safe to ignore data types in an implementation and 
> just encode exactly what is specified in each attribute definition and 
> accompanying
> diagram.  Is this is safe assumption?
Actually they should be removed.

Todd Glassey
> Thanks!
> Randy
>
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