draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams
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- Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, Dejice Jacob, and Colin Perkins, Describing Protocol Data Units with Augmented Packet Header Diagrams (.txt|.pdf), Internet Engineering Task Force, July 2020, Work in progress (draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams-06.txt).
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This version of our draft on describing protocol data units updates the examples for specifying enumerated types is Section 4.8. It also includes a significant update to correct the ABNF. Thanks to Marc Petit-Huguenin for reviewing the ABNF.
- Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, Dejice Jacob, and Colin Perkins, Describing Protocol Data Units with Augmented Packet Header Diagrams (.txt|.pdf), Internet Engineering Task Force, June 2020, Work in progress (draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams-05.txt).
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This version includes some clarifications around the type of fields with unknown length, and around how to specify the type of PDUs for parsing and serialisation. It also corrects the ABNF and some samples of the format.
- Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, Dejice Jacob, and Colin Perkins, Describing Protocol Data Units with Augmented Packet Header Diagrams (.txt|.pdf), Internet Engineering Task Force, April 2020, Work in progress (draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams-04.txt).
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Add sections on PDUs with constraints on field values; PDUs that extend sub-structures; storing data for parsing; connecting structures with functions; specifying enumerated types; and specifying protocol data units.
- Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, Dejice Jacob, and Colin Perkins, Describing Protocol Data Units with Augmented Packet Header Diagrams (.txt|.pdf), Internet Engineering Task Force, March 2020, Work in progress (draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams-03.txt).
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This version contains a number of editorial fixes and minor clarifications. It clarifies the rules around uniqueness of PDU and field names, and more clearly states when field lengths can be inferred.
- Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, and Colin Perkins, Describing Protocol Data Units with Augmented Packet Header Diagrams (.txt|.pdf), Internet Engineering Task Force, February 2020, Work in progress (draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams-02.txt).
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This version expands the requirements and further discusses what is an appropriate degree of expressiveness for a protocol description language. It clarifies a number of corner cases in the grammar and specifies how definitions are to be cross-referenced between documents. A list of known open issues is added.
- Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, and Colin Perkins, Describing Protocol Data Units with Augmented Packet Header Diagrams (.txt|.pdf), Internet Engineering Task Force, November 2019, Work in progress (draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams-01.txt).
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This document describes a machine-readable format for specifying the syntax of protocol data units within a protocol specification. This version tries to make the motivation clearer, is revised to describe the format by reference to real examples; and adds support for "PDUs with Non-Contiguous Fields” (e.g., the STUN Message Type Field).
- Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, and Colin Perkins, Fully Specifying Protocol Parsing with Augmented ASCII Diagrams (.txt|.pdf), Internet Engineering Task Force, July 2019, Work in progress (draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams-00.txt).
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This document describes a machine-readable format for fully specifying the process by which a protocol can be parsed. This format combines a consistent ASCII packet diagram format with the use of structured text, maintaining human readability while enabling support for machine parsing. This document is itself an example of how this format can be used.
IETF protocol specifications have long relied on packet header diagrams to illustrate the format of packet headers and other protocol data. This memo describes a consistent, machine readable, syntax for such diagrams.