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Re: Fibonaccing CID lengths

David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com> Thu, 23 May 2019 15:08 UTC

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From: David Schinazi <dschinazi.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 16:08:16 +0100
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Subject: Re: Fibonaccing CID lengths
To: Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>, Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>, Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen <mikkelfj@gmail.com>, IETF QUIC WG <quic@ietf.org>
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This encoding would be harder to deploy on our servers than having two
8-bit lengths. The only benefit of this is saving 8 bits on long headers,
and that's not worth the complexity.

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 9:21 AM Dmitri Tikhonov <dtikhonov@litespeedtech.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:36:54AM +0100, Kazuho Oku wrote:
> > 2019年5月22日(水) 21:04 Dmitri Tikhonov <dtikhonov@litespeedtech.com>:
> > > While the example is lighthearted, the proposal is serious: that is,
> > > remap 0 - 15 values of the nybble to a different set.  Do we need to
> > > represent every intermediate number between 0 and 48 (the maximum of
> > > the current PR)?
> >
> > The question is what you gain by compressing the length to 4 bits.
> >
> ----- 8< --- 8< --- 8< ---
> >
> > So, what's the benefit?
>
> Smaller change to the drafts -- and existing code.
>
>   - Dmitri.
>
>

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