[AFS3-std] Re: New version of the 64-bit time I-D (-03)

[Simon Wilkinson]

On 27 Sep 2011, at 03:15, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz@cmu.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 12:06 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote:
>> On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:39:13 +0100
>> Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk> wrote:
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>>> Apologies for not raising this earlier, but I have a small question
>>> about naming in the 64 bit time draft. I'd really like to use these
>>> times for on-the-wire values in rxgk - in particular for token times.
>>> Does it seem like a layering violation for something at the RX level
>>> to depend on types with AFS in their name?
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>> Are they used in an XDR stream in rxgk? My thoughts on this are that the
>> types described in afs3-type-time are XDR types and aren't really for
>> use in e.g. general packet headers; so if you're just using a 64-bit
>> wide field in a packet or something, these types shouldn't be used
>> anyway.

They are used in XDR encoded elements, yes.

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>> But either way, I think we need to be reasonable about using the exact
>> same types everywhere; we can use the same format without saying the
>> same exact type name.

I've come round to this way of thinking, too, so consider this concern satis=
fied!

Cheers,

Simon=