On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 10:53 AM, Tom Thomson wrote:
That makes it pretty clear that the proposal supports the transport of
octets, (an 8-bit transport), not of bits (a binary transport). A
binary
transport would allow me to transmit 37 bits, or 125 bits, or
10725412973
bits or indeed any number of bits, not just a multiple of 8 bits. For
an
example of a binary transport mechanism look at the definition of the
HDLC
protocol (or IBM's SDLP, for that matter, if that's easier for you to
find)
which are designed explicitly to permit units of any number of bits to
be
transferred.
I'll grant all of this, but I don't think it changes the answer in
context; that is, even if you don't think it is appropriate to call it
binary transport, I think it has the characteristics that I was
ascribing to binary transport in terms of its (lack of) effect on the
payload being transmitted. -- NB
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