PSA: Choosing codepoints
Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Mon, 14 December 2020 23:33 UTC
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 10:33:20 +1100
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
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Subject: PSA: Choosing codepoints
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I see that the recent multipath extensions are all proposing use of sequential codepoints, taken from the start of the range of available codepoints with two byte encodings. Please don't do this. Two reasons: 1. We've already had collisions. Choose a value from the range at random. 2. We've already burned codepoints with small encodings. When you are trialing an extension, choose a value with a longer encoding. There are plenty of those to waste. The former is in the QUIC draft [1]. [1] https://quicwg.org/base-drafts/draft-ietf-quic-transport.html#name-selecting-codepoints
- PSA: Choosing codepoints Martin Thomson
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