Grouping of sub attributes in seperate VSAs

[Бенджамин Томпсон]

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> With the current code you'll get alike SubTLVs occurring consecutively
> in the packed VSA/TLV attribute so you'd end up with one of those two
> variations.
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> The reason why this happens is the encoder performs a merge sort on the
> attribute
> list prior to attempting to encode the attributes.  This makes efficient
> packing
> of SubTLV attributes into VSAs/TLVs much easier, because you can just look
> at the
> next attribute to see if it's in the same parent TLV, or see if there's a
> common
> nesting level.
>
> Because merge sort is a stable sort, you should find the ordering of
> attributes
> of the same number and lineage don't change.
>

Arran many thanks for your explanation.