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oskarth opened this issue Jan 14, 2020 · 0 comments

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What are some classes of data representation?
How are they used in various domains?
What are their tradeoffs?
What are some special considerations when it comes to protocol over the wire and p2p systems?
How do we ensure designs are compatible, future proof, upgradable and composable?

https://multiformats.io/multiaddr/
Rich Hickey and Alan Kay on data (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945869
edn spec https://github.com/edn-format/edn
TLV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-length-value
Internet Message format (TCP/IP based, HTTP etc) (2001) https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822
protobuf overview site https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/overview
protobuf3 lang guide https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3
The Lost Art of Structure Packing www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/

Union / Sum types / Optional:

how do we deal with optional types and graceful accretion
what does this look like in rlp and protobuf etc

unreferenced:

ipv6 fail upgrade case study
Worse is better? JSON, etc
survey paper?
ASCII UNIX
UTF-8 - why such success? Rob Pike etc

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