Re: ISSUE: Checkgroups control messages

Thorfinn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.usenet.format
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On 22 Sep 2008, at 19:33, Russ Allbery wrote:

>
> "Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]> writes:
>> Julien ÉLIE <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> I do not think it wise to limit this number to 32768 because one  
>>> could
>>> not use DNS serial numbers (which are practical).  2^31=2147483648
>>> would be better, at least.  It could be said that implementations
>>> should except <chksernr> arguments to be a 32-bit integer.  And that
>>> the (unsigned) integer should be less than 2^32.
>
>> Yes, I agree that any number expressed in 32 bit would be better. Can
>> Russ quietly slip it in?
>
> It seems like a reasonable change to me, but I'd like to get more  
> opinions
> from the working group just to be sure.


640kb should be enough for anyone. Um. :-)

That is, yes, 32 bit unsigned integer is better, not 15 bit.

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