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diff --git a/proposals/332-ntor-v3-with-extra-data.md b/proposals/332-ntor-v3-with-extra-data.md index 4e55713..8e6dedc 100644 --- a/proposals/332-ntor-v3-with-extra-data.md +++ b/proposals/332-ntor-v3-with-extra-data.md @@ -338,20 +338,28 @@ We use the following meta-encoding for the contents of client and server messages. [Any number of times]: - TYPE [one byte] - LEN [one byte] - BODY [LEN bytes] - -We do not specify specific TYPE semantics here; we leave those for -other proposals. + EXTENSION + EXT_FIELD_TYPE [one byte] + EXT_FIELD_LEN [one byte] + EXT_FIELD [EXT_FIELD_LEN bytes] All parties MUST reject messages that are not well-formed per the rules above. -To avoid partitioning, clients MUST reject messages with TYPEs that -they do not recognize. (Therefore, whenever we specify a new server -message TYPE, we must say that it can only be included if the client -signals that it understands it.) +We do not specify specific TYPE semantics here; we leave those for +other proposals and specifications. + +Parties MUST ignore extensions with `EXT_FIELD_TYPE` bodies they do not +recognize. + +Unless otherwise specified in the documentation for an extension type: +* Each extension type SHOULD be sent only once in a message. +* Parties MUST ignore any occurrences all occurrences of an extension + with a given type after the first such occurrence. +* Extensions SHOULD be sent in numerically ascending order by type. + +(The above extension sorting and multiplicity rules are only defaults; +they may be overridden in the description of individual extensions.) # A.3 How much space is available? |