[ppsp] Comment on base tracker protocol binary encoding

Arno Bakker <arno@cs.vu.nl> Mon, 27 October 2014 08:30 UTC

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Subject: [ppsp] Comment on base tracker protocol binary encoding
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Hi all

when I look at the binary encoding in Section 3 the following questions
come up:
1. Why wasn't an existing encoding standard chosen?
2. The draft does not specify the endianness for the integer data?
3. Is there a need to support Unicode/internationalization? If so, this
should be added.

CU,
    Arno