Return-Path: X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) id h15NYtM23310 for ips-outgoing; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:34:55 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: ece.cmu.edu: majordom set sender to owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu using -f Received: from nhmc.sc1.ummail.com (nhmc.sc1.ummail.com [66.187.250.34]) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id h15NYoW23302 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 18:34:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from hqmailweb.Crossroads.com ( [65.68.235.6:25]) by nhmc.sc1.ummail.com with SMTP id D0205-1834-6c9c01; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:34:47 GMT Received: from HQMAILNODE1.COMMSTOR.Crossroads.com ([10.5.1.42]) by hqmailweb.Crossroads.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:34:38 -0600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: iSCSI: numeric-range format question (pedantic) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:34:38 -0600 Message-ID: Thread-Topic: iSCSI: numeric-range format question (pedantic) Thread-Index: AcLNbxWY5hmNq1n/QfOyWw5DP2Q2+A== From: "Buck Landry" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Feb 2003 23:34:38.0339 (UTC) FILETIME=[260F3530:01C2CD6F] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ece.cmu.edu id h15NYoW23303 Sender: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu Precedence: bulk Is it draft 20's intent that any numeric-range may be represented by a single numerical-value, if that value is the only one acceptable? I ask because: -- the definition for numeric-range does not mention this (5.1) -- OFMarkInt and IFMarkInt are defined as for offers (A.3.2) -- .. but the description for these keys says "In case it only wants a specific value, only a single value has to be specified". There are three conclusions I might make: a) When the draft says "only a single value has to be specified", it means only that (for instance) 4096~4096 might be specified. b) x is valid shorthand for x~x, but only for OFMarkInt and IFMarkInt c) x is valid shorthand for x~x, for any theoretical numeric-range The safest choice is obviously c). If the intent was actually a), would somebody please speak up. Thanks, --buck