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Re: [babel] Notes on 6126bis

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk> Sat, 22 July 2017 10:03 UTC

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Matthieu Boutier <boutier@irif.fr> writes:

> Thanks David,
>
>> - just a thought, should we mark 128 as reserved for symmetry with 0?
>
> Do you mean "Mandatory Pad 1" ?  Because for symmetry, the length
> would be -1 (no length field)...  and IMHO "mandatory Pad 1" sounds
> really weird !

I would tend to agree that that would just be weird...

-Toke

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