[e2e] TCP Framing

[Mike Fisk]

My message was misunderstood; I'm familiar with COBS.  I was attempting to
ask a leading question of the authors of the draft and other supporters of
similar proposals.  I was hoping that they could explain why _they_ don't
feel that byte stuffing is an appropriate solution.  To date, I haven't
heard any credible arguments about why byte-stuffing wouldn't be
sufficient.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Craig Partridge wrote:

> 
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103231457510.7855-100000 at pescado.lanl.gov>, Mike Fis
> k writes:
> 
> >I assume the argument is that it is inefficient to scan and twiddle bytes
> >and that some out-of-band (ala packet segmentation) framing looks cheaper.  
> 
> COBS is a very efficient byte stuffing that doesn't require much byte
> scanning.  If you're asking the question, you might go looks at Cheshire's
> SIGCOMM paper and see how COBS might fit.
> 
> Craig
> 

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