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>  >draft-ietf-card-protocol: Joel Halpren suggested a minor change, that
the
>  >units of length for all the suboptions be the same, to avoid problems
when
>  >introducing new suboptions. I'm intending to make the change and submit
>  >prior to the Monday deadline.
>
> How do you intend to change? Due to the fact that the Router Cert
> sub-option and others require more space than 252 byte, the only way
> is to adjust units of length indicators for L2-ID, Address sub-option etc
> from "units of octets" to "units of 8 octets" as well, right?
>

Yes, units of 8 octets.

> What is the potential problem with different units for the sub-options'
> length indicator when introducing new sub-options?
>

Please read Joel's comment in Draft Tracker.

              jak




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