RE: iSCSI: Decimal encoding - why 64 bits ?

[Robert Snively <rsnively@Brocade.COM>]

I would agree with Martins' statement:

> I'd like to disagree about the programming part,
> but more importantly, why don't we reinstate 
> the original request to forbid using decimal for
> binary items? It is not a very useful way
> of representing even short binary items because
> there is no way to express the number of leading
> 0-bytes, for example. In case there is a vote on
> this, I'm against using decimal for binary items.
> 

and cast my vote with his.