Re: iSCSI-related conclusions from Orlando interim Meeting

[David Robinson <David.Robinson@EBay.Sun.COM>]

Black_David@emc.com wrote:
> It's a bit cryptic.  The conclusion in the room was
> to convert binary values to/from text representations
> for the purpose of negotiation (and use UTF-8 for the
> text).  This was felt to be simpler than defining new
> formats for binary values.

So if I want to send the binary data 0101101011110000
I first turn that into text "5AF0" then encode that into
UTF-8 "5AF0" (printable ASCII is a no-op in UTF-8)?

I'll buy that.

Any statement as to the text encoding? Hex? Decimal? Octal?

	-David