Re: contiguous BITS question

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Juergen Schoenwaelder" <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>
> To: <jcucchiara@mindspring.com>
> Cc: <mreview@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: contiguous BITS question
...

...
> > >       SYNTAX  BITS {
> > >                      delInProgress (0),
> > >                      adminDown (1),
> > >                      testing (2),
> > >                      reflect (31)
> > >                    }
> > >
...
> > Here is the TLV that the object represents:
> >
> > 0                   1                   2                   3
> >     0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
> >    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> >    |R|                        Reserved                       |T|A|D|
> >    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> >
> >       Reflect (R): 1 bit
> >       Reserved: 28 bits
> >       Testing (T): 1 bit
> >       Administratively down (A): 1 bit
> >       Deletion in progress (D): 1 bit
>
> It looks like the bit positions are actually reversed in the BITS
> definition, or is it just too early in the morning for me?
...

It's late at night here, and they look backwards to me, too.

Randy