Re:

["Julian Satran \(Actcom\)" <Julian_Satran@actcom.net.il>]

Martins,

In fact reading your note I went back and found an error we may want to
correct:

TargetPortalGroupTag is a 16 bit binary string and not an number (there is
no TPGT that is lower or higher than another TPGT).

As for IP addresses they are just for illustration - each of the address
item is a an 8 bit  binary string of fixed length usually encoded decimal.

There are no good examples that need decimals other than TPGT but I see no
point in disallowing them for vendor keys and future extensions. Any
implementation will have the conversion routines. Restricting the use of
decimals beyond what we did does not strike me as useful.

Julo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martins Krikis" <mkrikis@yahoo.com>
To: "Julian Satran (Actcom)" <Julian_Satran@actcom.net.il>; "ips"
<ips@ece.cmu.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 5:02 PM
Subject: Re:


>
> --- "Julian Satran (Actcom)"
> <Julian_Satran@actcom.net.il> wrote:
> > Leading 0 where forbidden after a brief discussion.
> > As for unlikely to be used - I could argue for the
> > contrary - as in the examples I gave in a previous
> > notes.
> > Many string copied from humanly readable documents
> > tend to be decimal-encoded.
>
> Julian,
>
> You are right about the leading 0, thus Bill's
> example was a bad one. He is right however about
> the inability to express the leading nul-bytes of
> a binary string when it is encoded in decimal.
>
> The examples you gave previously (unless some
> have escaped me) were really bad. I have yet to
> see a true "binary string" (and not a number)
> encoded in decimal.
>
> Martins Krikis, Intel Corp.
>
> Disclaimer: these opinions are mine and may not
>             be those of my employer.
>
>
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