> > > I think the only good format for things that might be extended or
> > > modified over time is a "tagged" format. The BOOTP extension format
> > > is tagged, but binary. They have length bytes, so they don't need
> > > separator bytes.
>
> I'll throw another requirement in here. For many networking applications I
> need to go to a fixed size record scheme for speed.
Then you would just set the length to the maximum size you need, fill
in your data, and pad the rest.
(In BOOTP they said 0x00 is a tag without length byte, and it has an
implicit length of 0. Therefore you can fill any gaps with 0x00.)
>
> ALan
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