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

Arno Bakker <arno@cs.vu.nl> Mon, 27 October 2014 12:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ppsp] Comment on base tracker protocol binary encoding
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On 27/10/2014 10:42, Huangyihong (Rachel) wrote:
>>
>> when I look at the binary encoding in Section 3 the following questions come up:
>> 1. Why wasn't an existing encoding standard chosen?
> 
> [Rachel]: Which encoding standard are you suggesting? 
> 

XDR [RFC4506] is one of the classics.

CU,
    Arno