Groups - Sun 64-bit Binary Alignment Proposal v2 (Sun 64-bit Binary Alignment Proposal.pdf) uploaded

[matthew.ball@sun.com]

I've updated the 64-bit alignment proposal to correct a few typos and to
increase the size of a boolean from 4 to 8 bytes.  You can see changes from
v1 to v2 in red, and changes from the baseline draft to v1 in blue.

Other 4-byte data types that we may consider expanding to 8 bytes with 4
leading zeros: Integer, Enumeration, Interval.

So far, the poll shows about half-and-half preference of 32-bit alignment
vs. 64-bit alignment.  Please note that 64-bit alignment is suitable for
32-bit processors, whereas 32-bit alignment does not necessarily work
optimally in 64-bit environments.  Basically, if in doubt, 64-bit alignment
is more generally useful.

 -- Matthew Ball

The document revision named Sun 64-bit Binary Alignment Proposal v2 (Sun
64-bit Binary Alignment Proposal.pdf) has been submitted by Matthew Ball to
the OASIS Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) TC document
repository.  This document is revision #1 of Sun 64-bit Binary Alignment
Proposal.pdf.

Document Description:
This document is a proposal to change the KMIP binary encoding so that it
is aligned to 64-bit boundaries

Version 2

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http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=32413

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