Re: [6lowpan] [Roll] draft-bormann-ghc

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 05 September 2012 08:14 UTC

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On Sep 5, 2012, at 10:05, Yoshihiro Ohba <yoshihiro.ohba@toshiba.co.jp> wrote:

> Why do you think the *** style is less clear?

because 11nnnkkk turns into 11****** -- this loses visual access to the bit allocation.

Again, this is all about the exposition, not about the technical content of the proposal, so I'm not sure we need good consensus on what is the best style (we only need to make sure there is no potential for misinterpretation).

Grüße, Carsten