Re: QPACK proposal: wrap absolute index values

Dmitri Tikhonov <dtikhonov@litespeedtech.com> Mon, 06 August 2018 03:40 UTC

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Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:40:37 -0400
From: Dmitri Tikhonov <dtikhonov@litespeedtech.com>
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: QPACK proposal: wrap absolute index values
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 10:29:50AM +1000, Martin Thomson wrote:
> Table State Synchronize is relative, so it wouldn't benefit from a
> change here.  That's something I missed initially, so it's probably a
> candidate for clearer text.

I think the text looks fine -- I simply was not reading it carefully
enough.

> I've no real opinion on the wrapping proposal.  It seems like it might
> work for the Largest Reference.  The math is a tiny bit annoying to
> decode in the same way the packet number encoding is, but it is
> doable.

Yes, it is similar to the packet number logic, except that unlike the
packet number, the absolute index wraps around.

  - Dmitri.