Re: [ppsp] Comment on base tracker protocol binary encoding

Arno Bakker <arno@cs.vu.nl> Mon, 27 October 2014 15:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ppsp] Comment on base tracker protocol binary encoding
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On 27/10/2014 13:17, Prof. Rui Santos Cruz Eng. wrote:
> The idea for the new specification of the protocol, was to avoid
> suggestions of encoding, leaving that to implementation.
> Thee main reasons for delaying the approval process of previous versions
> of the draft was for having included suggestions of encoding (text or
> binary). 
> 

Hi

I did not follow the whole discussion, but the draft should be such that
interoperable implementations can be made. Weren't the encodings
supposed to go into appendices?

CU,
    Arno