Re: iSCSI-related conclusions from Orlando interim Meeting

[julian_satran@il.ibm.com]

I think that David (Robinson) has a good point. I think that NDT would want
to say
text encoding in one of the C-language forms (0x'...' etc.) and those
include binaries etc.
The alternative is to allow only hex (not always nice nor readable).

Julo

David Robinson <David.Robinson@EBay.Sun.COM> on 20/01/2001 03:11:35

Please respond to David Robinson <David.Robinson@EBay.Sun.COM>

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Subject:  Re: iSCSI-related conclusions from Orlando interim Meeting




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