Re: [sip-clf] [sip-ops] [dispatch] SIP-CLF: Results on ASCII vs. binary representation

"Vijay K. Gurbani" <vkg@alcatel-lucent.com> Tue, 05 May 2009 16:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sip-clf] [sip-ops] [dispatch] SIP-CLF: Results on ASCII vs. binary representation
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Adam Roach wrote:
dean> One could design things such that each record contains an initial
dean> "structure" filed with a fixed-format  series of indices (total
dean> length, number of fields, lengths for each field, followed by
dean> variable--length data fields, tab (or other reserved char) delimited
dean> followed by a CRLF terminator (included in total-length index). This
dean> gives us records that are fast-parseable, but still human-readable.
> 
> Yes. That is what I was proposing.

Adam: Is it possible to get a draft out on this format for
further discussion?  I am willing to pitch in and help text
out a draft with you, Dean and anyone else interested on the
list.

There are further advantages to such a format over the simple
space-delimited ASCII format, which would need some escaping
to parse the Contact URI in the CLF file:
    sip:<alice@example.com>;param=" value1 value2 "

Thanks,

- vijay
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