[AFS3-std] Re: Encoding IPvN addresses

[Andrew Deason]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:42:52 +0000
Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk> wrote:

> > So I would agree with a primitive type. Do we want to keep new
> > primitive types prefixed with "afs" like afsUUID was? Call it...
> > afsTLV ?
> 
> I'd like to see a primitive type too. I'm not sure where you're
> getting TLV from (yet another TLA?) - would something like afsAddress
> not be cleaner?

I thought the primitive type was just for a "flexible union", and then
you build an "address" type on top of it; I'd like to use the same type
for other things. TLV = Tag-Length-Value, which I suppose is more of an
encoding than a conceptual description. But I'm not sure what else to
call it; a "flexible union"/afsFlexUnion, a "union with
length"/afsLUnion, a "backwards-compatible union"/bunion ?

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Andrew Deason
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