Subject: Question on forward compatibility in the Rsvp-Lsp-Tunnel

From: ARUMUGAM R <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 10:51:15 +0530

Hi,
I have a question in forward compatibility (section 4.4.5) of the rsvp-lsp-tunnel-07 draft.
It is said that during loop detection processing, a node SHOULD parse over any unrecognized objects.
My question is can we assume that the newsubobject's, TYPE & LENGTH field is stated exactly the same way 
of that of other subobjects, so that during parsing, the parser can move to the position defined by the length of the new subobject.
Else if the length field is defined somewhere, how can I know where the length field of new subobject is defined.
Regards
Aru
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Arumugam R
Senior Software Engineer,
Future Software Ltd.
Chennai - 35
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