IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> PRO - A value-type field for the Protocol Spec

Re: IPP> PRO - A value-type field for the Protocol Spec

Scott Isaacson (SISAACSON@novell.com)
Fri, 06 Jun 1997 16:21:35 -0600

Randy,

Yes, let's just stick with ABNF.

>>> Randy Turner <rturner@sharplabs.com> 06/06 3:44 PM >>>
> If we are mixing binary and ASCII values within our encoding ...

See my earlier posting measurements we did of our prototype where
we encoded both ways
"(binary length)name(binary length)value"
and then just
"name:valueCRLF"
Not a lot of difference in our timing measurements. In fact it takes more
time to encode using binary lengths.

Doesn't seem worth it to me to skip a great legacy and ease extensibility
and
reduce risk of interoperability for almost no processing gain on a
portion that is only very minimally involved in the overall end-to-end
processing
time required from application-to-paper.

Scott