Subject: [Srcomp] REQ-7-29-EXPLICIT-SID-LENGTH-00

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:39:32 +0800 (CST)

Short Name: Explicit Compressed Length of SID.

Description: The compression mechanism must provide explicit information of the length of the compressed SID in the IPv6 packet.

Rational: The compression solution may be used in many scenarios where different compression lengths are used. The explicit length information of the compressed SID will bring the following benefits:

- Indication the explicit type of compression domain which the packets currently belongs to.

- Convenient for operation and maintenance, for example to enable offline tools to parse the IPv6 header and analysis SID list.

Metric: The length information of the compressed SID must be provided in the IPv6 packet that contains the compressed SID.

Regards,

PSF