RE: #541: CONTINUATION

On 03 July 2014 23:34, martin.thomson@gmail.com wrote:
>On 3 July 2014 14:24, Adrian Cole <adrian.f.cole@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Proposal 4 (remove continuation; add setting for total header frame(s)
>> length limit) works for me. I know details are pending, but I'm
>> on-board with the idea.
>
>To be clear, I believe that proposal 4 is two things:
>
>1. A setting that describes the maximum permissible compressed size of
>a header block (default 16K)
>
>2. A mandate to fill all frames carrying header block fragments if
>they are followed by a CONTINUATION
>
>In the normal case, this would mean that an implementation could avoid
>even implementing CONTINUATION.
>
>That is, if we get this right and say that padding can be used to fill
>the frame, otherwise we're back in the poop.

Could somebody please write a proposal for option #4? I can't even follow what the option really is.  For example, Martin is talking about CONTINUATION still, but in the quote from Adrian, the first thing he says is "remove continuation".

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