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Re: [hybi] Framing take IV

Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> Wed, 04 August 2010 00:53 UTC

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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:53:43 +0000
From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Greg Wilkins wrote:
> 
> I think that we have reasonable consensus on something like:
> 
>   +--------------------------------------------------+
>   | frag(1) |unused(3) | opcode(4) |  Length(16)     |
>   +--------------------------------------------------+
>   |                      Data                        |
>   +--------------------------------------------------+

Why would we have a fixed length field with fragmentation rather than a 
variable length field?

If we can have a variable width length field, do we need to support 
fragmentation in the first version? I could see an argument for supporting 
fragmentation in the case of multiplexing, but without that it doesn't 
seem to actually gain us anything.

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