[AFS3-std] Re: New i-d draft-keiser-afs3-xdr-primitive-types-00

[Tom Keiser]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wro=
te:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:08:27 +0000
> Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 10 Nov 2011, at 23:12, Andrew Deason wrote:
>
>> >>> 4. =A0afsUUID
>>
>> Not relevant to this draft, but come RPC refresh, we really should
>> replace afsUUID with a UUID encoding that just represents it as an
>> opaque 128bit value on the wire.
>

yes!  I wholeheartedly concur.

> Or encoded as a bunch of explicit int32s packed in a specified way or
> something. I think Tom had something for this? Or maybe he just
> expressed the same "hey we should do this" sentiment.
>

Alas, my involvement is merely the latter.  My recollection is we
settled on something along the lines of "typedef afsUUIDng
opaque[16];" at the Pittsburgh hackathon back in April.  Matt, please
correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you tentatively volunteered to
write a brief i-d describing this encoding; do you still foresee
having time to write that?  I know you have several drafts on your
plate at the moment...

Cheers,

-Tom