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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: iSCSI: Decimal encoding - why 64 bits ?The most common example would probably be the IP address, which is a binary value. It is often presented as four separate decimal numbers for no reason I can think of, except perhaps a feeling that hexadecimal numbers were somehow less user friendly for inexperienced users. See RFC 0790 and RFC 0791. Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: Martins Krikis [mailto:mkrikis@yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 7:42 AM > To: Julian Satran (Actcom); Black_David@emc.com > Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu > Subject: Re: iSCSI: Decimal encoding - why 64 bits ? > > > > --- "Julian Satran (Actcom)" > <Julian_Satran@actcom.net.il> wrote: > > Martins - you have a very good point - and we > > considered briefly to forbid > > decimal from the outset but many of the team felt > > that this would be a bad > > idea as values get copied from a context to another. > > And the we looked at > > coding for other RFCs and we found decimal > > everywhere - addresses, > > identifiers, ports etc., and thought it would be a > > bad idea to forbid them > > in iSCSI > > Julian, > > I cannot find a single post on this mailing list > saying that forbidding decimal encoding for binary > items would be a bad idea. I did find several (and > quoted 4) that actually recommended dropping decimal > encoding for binary items. Lately there have been > many more such posts. All those other RFCs, I > suspect, are actually dealing with numbers. I have > no objections to using decimal encoding for numbers > (that is things, that normally fit in your > machine's registers and are treated as numerical, > not as bit-strings). You have yet to provide an > example of something that is clearly a binary > string (and not used as a number) and is being > commonly encoded in decimal. If you find such a > thing, can you tell us what's the scheme for telling > how many null-bytes this binary string starts with? > > Martins Krikis, Intel Corp. > > Disclaimer: these opinions are mine and may not > be those of my employer. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free > http://sbc.yahoo.com >
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