Re: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-bikeshed-length-00.txt

Could the draft endorse greasing instead?

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:46 PM Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020, at 11:22, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> > > On 20 Mar 2020, at 11:02 am, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
> wrote:
> > > In message <ebea7134-3da6-44be-b445-7f79d1717f2b@www.fastmail.com>,
> "Martin Tho
> > > mson" writes:
> > >> Sure, the numbers will be smaller, but why have the rounding at all?
> > >
> > > To make sure it is not precise enough for framing use.
> > This
>
> And so when someone rounds up and expects that to be ample space, what
> then?  I'm not sure that I agree that this is a valid threat model.
>
> Seems like over-rotating to me.  If implementations routinely encounter
> values that don't match the actual length, then they will learn not to
> depend on the two being the same.
>
>