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Re: [Multiformats] Multiformats Considered Harmful

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 06 September 2023 08:09 UTC

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+1 very much. 

One nit:

Sent from mobile, sorry for terse

On 6. Sep 2023, at 04:04, Michael Jones <michael_b_jones@hotmail.com> wrote:

5. The “https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-multiformats-multihash-07.html" rel="nofollow">multihash” specification relies on a non-standard representation of integers called “Dwarf”. Indeed, the referenced Dwarf document lists itself as being at http://dwarf.freestandards.org/" rel="nofollow">http://dwarf.freestandards.org/ – a URL that no longer exists!

Leb128 (not sure that the drafts call it by its common name) is the little endian variant of sdnv, which we do have as an rfc (please look that up for me…)

Grüße, Carsten 

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