Re: iSCSI: 12-97 Bit Rule

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

Luben,

We are writing based on IETF rules. You are not reading a book - you are reading an IETF draft!

Julo

Luben Tuikov <luben@splentec.com> Sent by: luben@ns.splentec.com 06/13/2002 10:19 PM Please respond to Luben Tuikov

To:        Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL         cc:        iSCSI <ips@ece.cmu.edu>         Subject:        Re: iSCSI: 12-97 Bit Rule

Julian Satran wrote:
> 
> Luben,
> 
> The draft has figure that are an integral part of it.
> In every one of those bit 7 is the least significant.
> I don't know what your NORMALLY means.

Julian, any book you open on computer architecture,
assumes that bit 7 is more significant than bit 6,
simply because 2^7 > 2^6.

Stipulating that bit 7 is less significant than
bit 6, needs explicitly to be said so, NOT
inferred from ``figures in the text''.

Nevertheless, as you may have already noticed,
the algorithm which I sent you, is _independent_
of iSCSI's implication that bit 7 is less significant
than bit 6.

So, anywhich way you order the bits in the bytes
for the rest of the draft, the algoritm would
produce the same results, simply because
it explicitly mentions ordering in step 1 (and 2).

-- 
Luben