[Anima-signaling] 24-bit session-id

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sun, 09 October 2016 03:01 UTC

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Subject: [Anima-signaling] 24-bit session-id
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Given that CBOR has only 1,2, and 4 byte uintegers, why do we have a 24-bit
session-id?   There is no encoding savings.  Is there something else I'm missing?

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