SMBIOS -- about the length

Some introduction for the SMBIOS in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_BIOS.
The SMBIOS spec is in the http://dmtf.org/standards/smbios

Anyway, the length for one SMBIOS type is only one byte.  But the handle is 2 bytes.  This is strange design.  The SMBIOS designer think the SMBIOS data will never over 256 bytes, but the handles will over 256.  I believe this is not a good design.  The Length item will be re-design soon.