Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Largest Reference isn't the right concept (#2110)

Bence Béky <notifications@github.com> Wed, 26 December 2018 18:49 UTC

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QPACK is currently inconsistent in that static table indexing is explicitly defined to be zero-based, while dynamic table absolute indexing is explicitly one-based, see
https://quicwg.org/base-drafts/draft-ietf-quic-qpack.html#table-static
https://quicwg.org/base-drafts/draft-ietf-quic-qpack.html#indexing

I enthusiastically support PR #2111 and also changing absolute indexing to zero-based.

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