3.2.5.7 Sending an AUTHORITY_BUFFER

To send an AUTHORITY_BUFFER message to a given node, a DRT node MUST construct AUTHORITY messages as follows:

If the AUTHORITY_BUFFER message is less than or equal to 1188 bytes long, the DRT node MUST construct a single AUTHORITY message with the Offset field set to 0.

If the AUTHORITY_BUFFER message is more than 1188 bytes long, the DRT node MUST fragment the original AUTHORITY_BUFFER message into multiple fragments where every fragment except the last fragment MUST be 1188 bytes long, and the last fragment MUST be less than or equal to 1188 bytes long. Each fragment MUST then be placed into its own AUTHORITY message, where every AUTHORITY message MUST contain the same DRT Header values.

The DRT node MUST then send the AUTHORITY message(s) to the specified node.