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[quicwg/base-drafts] use varints in transport parameters (#1608)

Marten Seemann <notifications@github.com> Sun, 29 July 2018 22:27 UTC

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Using varints instead of fixed size fields would allow us to save bytes in the common case, while allowing for a wider range of values if needed. Most importantly, we'd be more consistent in how we encode values across the protocol.
I'm not sure how to correctly write that in the TLS presentation language though.

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