Re: iSCSI-related conclusions from Orlando interim Meeting

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

That's right.  The N&D team will send a new draft soon with the
encodings.  Some of the options for encoding binary data are hex,
decimal, octal, and uuencode.  We will probably suggest hex; it
uses more space than unicode, but for most binary names, is the
simplest and most readable.  Please stay tuned.

David Robinson wrote:
> 
> 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

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