Re: iSCSI base64 and 12-92

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Paul Koning wrote:

Wow. I feel like I'm on one of those talkshows or AOL.

<AOL>Me too!!!!!</AOL>

> Let me rephrase what I'm looking for, because the picture seems to be
> getting muddled.
>
> I would like to see Base64 permitted ONLY for those parameters that
> are long octetstrings.  Basically, that's only the crypto parameters.

I *strongly* agree. Especially since if we have a crypto method that wants
to excahnge long numbers, we can define the exchange to be of formated
binary strings; we move the hard stuff to the crypto system that wants it.

> For all other integer parameters -- which are 64 bit or smaller
> integers -- permit only hex and decimal.

I'd make that decimal & hex for small numbers (64 bit or less), and hex
for larger ones (not sure if we have any).

> The reason is that these are different datatypes internally, so you
> will be using different conversion routines.  Conversion from Base64
> to int is an "unnatural act" and I would prefer not to have to
> add that code.

Agreed!

Take care,

Bill