Re: iSCSI: 12-97 Bit Rule

[Luben Tuikov <luben@splentec.com>]

Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> 
> > Julian Satran wrote:
> > >  - The PDU bits are considered as the coefficients of a polyno-mial M(x) of degree n-1; bit 7 of
> > > the lowest numbered byte is considered the most significant bit (x^n-1), followed by bit 6 of the
> > > lowest numbered byte and through bit 0 of the high-est numbered byte (x^0).
> >
> > This description, taken by itself, as you quote it here,
> > mentions bit 7 of a byte. Normally, bit 7 of a byte is
> > the Most Significant bit (MSb).
> >
> > But somewhere you MUST mention that bit 7 is, contrary to all
> > intuition, the LSb, NOT, as many of us would assume, the MSb.
> > (I.e. the _bit_ ordering as per the PDU template doesn't
> > imply bit significance, or does it?)
> 
> Uhm, that's standard practice for an IETF draft. While it may be
> counter-intuitive (I'd agree it is), it's standard practice with the ietf,
> and is used that way through the draft.

Other than _repeating_ what Julian has said, do you have a point?

Anyway, if you had paid attention you'd have noticed
that the algorithm I sent DOESN'T DEPEND on the
bit numbering (7:0 or 0:7) of the draft. _This_
was the more important subject (and my point)...

-- 
Luben