Feature #4824
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Naming conventions: discontinue byte offset segmenting
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Description
NDN Naming Conventions revision 1 defines two segmenting markers: 0x00 and 0xFB.
0x00 is the segment number marker. Segments of a content are assigned consecutive segment numbers.
It is commonly used in many applications, including ndnputchunks, NDNFS, and PSync.
0xFB is the byte offset marker. Segments of a content are given this marker followed by payload's byte offset within the content.
We are unaware of any application that adopts the 0xFB byte offset marker.
Moreover, unless using a manifest, the consumer cannot predict the byte offset of every segment, and thus hinders the efficiency of content retrieval because pipelining cannot be used.
This issue is to discontinue this segmenting marker/component in the specification.
Code changes belong to separate issues.
Updated by Junxiao Shi about 5 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
- Estimated time set to 2.00 h
Survey sent to ndn-interest.
Feedback deadline is Feb 03.
Updated by Junxiao Shi about 5 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
- Assignee set to Alex Afanasyev
Alex withdrew his proposal on 20190130 call.
https://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/pipermail/ndn-interest/2019-January/002345.html