RE: iSCSI: Decimal encoding - why 64 bits ?

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

Paul,

there are two subjects that we are discussing:

1-size of numbers 64bit vs 32 bit
2-decimal encoding for bit strings

The 2 subjects are somewhat orthogonal.

Elizabeth was referring to the second subject.

julo

Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net> Sent by: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu 07/07/2002 04:11 PM Please respond to Paul Koning

To:        Elizabeth.G.Rodriguez@123mail.net         cc:        ips@ece.cmu.edu         Subject:        RE: iSCSI: Decimal encoding - why 64 bits ?

Excerpt of message (sent 6 July 2002) by Elizabeth G. Rodriguez:
> Given these examples, I believe that restricting decimal encoded binary
> strings is not an option.

Why not?  I don't see that phone numbers have any relevance to the
discussion.  And port numbers (just like IP addresses) are not 64 bit
values, which is what we were talking about.

                     paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of
> Julian Satran (Actcom)
> Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 1:25 AM
> To: Robert Snively; 'Martins Krikis'; Black_David@emc.com
> Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: iSCSI: Decimal encoding - why 64 bits ?
> 
> You may want to add to the list port-numbers, domain specific name
> formats
> (yes some domains mainly phone systems use decimal encodings).
> 
> A search for decimal encoded binary strings in the RFC domain gave well
> over
> one-hundred results.
> 
> Julo