Re: are offsets enough? --was: (dictionary or not) Re: [dtn-security] 00 version of the Bundle Security Protocol Spec.

Michael Demmer <demmer@cs.berkeley.edu> Thu, 26 May 2005 18:31 UTC

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> Since we now have extensions and even, apparently, criticality,
> some of those offsets might be in headers you don't know how
> to parse so the dictionary encoding has to be self-contained,
> other than whatever refers to the dictionary. Similarly, you
> cannot move stuff about in the dictionary unless you understand
> how to fix all of the headers in a bundle.

that's a good point... unless a particular node can parse and
understand all headers, then all it can do is append to the
dictionary.

-m