Avahi optimisations

[Simon McVittie]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 at 06:58:10 -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote:
> On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:48 AM, Morgan Collett wrote:
> > actually we are normally using b64 encoding so
> > that brought it down to 28 bytes. Using SHA-256 it's 44 bytes in the  
> > TXT
> > record.
> But _why_ are we encoding at all? TXT RDATA is one or more character  
> strings, which are each a length octet followed by up to 255 arbitrary  
> characters treated as a binary string. Am I misremembering the RFC?

You're correct, and I've replied as such to the Trac ticket. Can we move
any further discussion there?

    Simon