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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: iSCSI-related conclusions from Orlando interim MeetingI support this. Julo "Jim Hafner" <hafner@almaden.ibm.com> on 23/01/2001 00:08:29 Please respond to "Jim Hafner" <hafner@almaden.ibm.com> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu cc: Subject: Re: iSCSI-related conclusions from Orlando interim Meeting Mark and David, Though we haven't discussed this within NDT, this issue is a bit broader (applicable to all key:value pairs in login and text messages). Some have suggested full C syntax, others have said that hex is sufficient. I'd like to support the two most important cases: 1) representation of 'integer' type values with represent a quantity (like length, size, count, etc.) 2) binary strings (as might occur in WWUIs, or other binary entities that don't necessarily represent a 'quantity' For the first, decimal seems the most natural. For the latter, hex seems best suited. For WWUI's, we've already weakly proposed a format that implies hex. Perhaps in other cases, the prefix '0x' or the prefix 'hex=' would be a good way to indicate non-decimal format. Jim Hafner Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>@ece.cmu.edu on 01-22-2001 06:16:55 AM Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu To: David Robinson <David.Robinson@EBay.Sun.COM> cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu Subject: Re: iSCSI-related conclusions from Orlando interim Meeting 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 -- Mark A. Bakke Cisco Systems mbakke@cisco.com 763.398.1054
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