RE: iSCSI: Decimal encoding - why 64 bits ?

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

There was NO such consensus.  Julo

Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@wasabisystems.com> 07/02/2002 10:18 PM Please respond to Bill Studenmund

To:        "THALER,PAT (A-Roseville,ex1)" <pat_thaler@agilent.com>         cc:        "LEMAY,KEVIN (A-Roseville,ex1)" <kevin_lemay@agilent.com>, Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, <ips@ece.cmu.edu>         Subject:        RE: iSCSI: Decimal encoding - why 64 bits ?

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, THALER,PAT (A-Roseville,ex1) wrote:

> Bill,
>
> I also thought that the result of the reflector discussion was
> agreement that decimal would only be used for numbers and not be used
> for strings that are sometimes longer than the 64 bit limit like CHAP
> and SRP strings. That seems to be partially implemented in that the
> Kerbos and SPKM sections call for large-binary-values, but it was done
> incompletely.

I looked at the list archive, and
http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/mailinglists/ips/mail/msg10319.html
is a comment by David indicating he saw concensus for not using base64 for
numbers.

I didn't find the thread part where I thought we agreed that we would
use decimal only for numbers (and not for small binary strings).

??

Take care,

Bill