Re: Nits and suggestions for draft-kazuho-h2-cache-digest

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 31 May 2016 05:29 UTC

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> On 15 May 2016, at 1:43 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From small to large:
> 
> Nit:
>       2.  If "W" and "V" are equal, continue to the next "V".
> 
> This should be next "W", I think.

There is no next W...


> I think that Q would be better encoded as a series of 0 bits followed
> by a 1 bit.  The reason I say that is that it is (marginally) easier
> to generate the values then by masking in the R value in the right
> place in a freshly calloc'd piece of memory.

I'm not fussed; Kazuho?


> This document really needs to describe what the contents of the cache
> digest are, and to describe how to decode the cache digest.  Without
> defining what it means to receive and decode this information, this
> specification almost says nothing at all.

Whatever happened to "left as an exercise to the reader?"

:)

Yes, we do. 

Cheers,


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Nits and suggestions for draft-kazuho-h2-cache-di… Martin Thomson
Re: Nits and suggestions for draft-kazuho-h2-cach… Mark Nottingham
Re: Nits and suggestions for draft-kazuho-h2-cach… Alcides Viamontes E
Re: Nits and suggestions for draft-kazuho-h2-cach… Mark Nottingham
Re: Nits and suggestions for draft-kazuho-h2-cach… Kazuho Oku
Re: Nits and suggestions for draft-kazuho-h2-cach… Mark Nottingham