Re: [Extra] Some comments on draft-ietf-extra-imap-64bit

Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmailteam.com> Sat, 16 September 2017 15:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Extra] Some comments on draft-ietf-extra-imap-64bit
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Yeah, round tripping via a signed 64 bit value is nice.


On Sat, 16 Sep 2017, at 02:25, HANSEN, TONY L wrote:
> On 9/15/17, 12:07 PM, "Extra on behalf of Stephan Bosch"
> <extra-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of stephan@rename-it.nl> wrote:
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>     I gave draft-ietf-extra-imap-64bit a quick look. I have a few
>     comments
> 
> 
> I too have a couple comments. If it’s called the 64bit
> extension, why are> the numbers limited to 63 bits? Why not the full 64-bit range?
> 
> I’m sure there’s a good reason (or perhaps not).
> 
> Tony Hansen
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