Re: [Linuxptp-devel] [Linuxptp-users] Parsing of organization extension TLVs

[Richard H. <pl...@gm...>]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 08:14:52AM +0200, Morten Flå wrote:

> This is how the SMPTE 2059-2 is defined with messageId field set to

> Management Message and action set to Command followed by a

> Organization Extension TLV, so I guess someone did not think this

> through.

 

Oh man.

 

I guess we'll have to reject management messages that lack a

management TLV.

 

 

I’m not directly involved anymore with SMPTE, but I hear that the SMPTE

people recently had a meeting and only just now understand they’ve screwed-up the
specification.

They haven’t (yet?) decided to do anything about it though..

Isn’t this risky as it would be quite  normal for Boundary Clocks etc to drop these
invalid messages?

Perhaps if the SMPTE people saw it written down specifically that you will

definitely drop these bad messages, that might prompt them into action ?