Subject: Re: [mobile-ip] Issue 51: cookie lengths

From: Vijay Devarapalli <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:56:21 -0700

Jari Arkko wrote:

> Taking
> in account alignment / padding requirements, if we have more than 16
> bits we might as well make them 64 bits without wasting any more
> bandwidth.

alignment requirements are best solved by padding. tomorrow, if 
somebody defines a new option for HoTi/CoTi/HoT/CoT messages, those 
options would fill up this space. you shouldnt make this cookies 
longer (saying you have to pad anyway today).

Vijay