Subj : Re: Problem at your system
To   : deon
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed Jan 25 2023 08:31 am

Hi deon,

On 2023-01-25 11:29:16, you wrote to me:

>>  de> I'm not sure it would be against a standard to put nulls in a
>> field
>>  de> that a standard would describe "dont use in this case" (and in this
>>  de> particular scenario, I think we are talking about if an INTL kludge
>>  de> exists).
>>
>> Non of the FTSC documents say that.

de> Actually, I think they do. Just found a copy of FTS-0001.016 (1995) and
de> there are several references to fields being null if not used:

de> serialNo   (* binary serial number (otherwise null)*)
de> password   (* session password  (otherwise null)   *)
de> origZone   (* zone of pkt sender (otherwise null)  *)
de> destZone   (* zone of pkt receiver (otherwise null)*)

de> So the concept of using null if a field is not used has been set.

Indeed, and it doesn't say so for any of the node and net fields in the pkt and message header. So null is not an option for those.


Bye, Wilfred.

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