Re: iSCSI: 12-97 Bit Rule

[Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com>]

On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Luben Tuikov wrote:

> Julian Satran wrote:
> >  - The PDU bits are considered as the coefficients of a polyno-mial M(x) of degree n-1; bit 7 of
> > the lowest numbered byte is considered the most significant bit (x^n-1), followed by bit 6 of the
> > lowest numbered byte and through bit 0 of the high-est numbered byte (x^0).
>
> This description, taken by itself, as you quote it here,
> mentions bit 7 of a byte. Normally, bit 7 of a byte is
> the Most Significant bit (MSb).
>
> But somewhere you MUST mention that bit 7 is, contrary to all
> intuition, the LSb, NOT, as many of us would assume, the MSb.
> (I.e. the _bit_ ordering as per the PDU template doesn't
> imply bit significance, or does it?)

Uhm, that's standard practice for an IETF draft. While it may be
counter-intuitive (I'd agree it is), it's standard practice with the ietf,
and is used that way through the draft.

Take care,

Bill