Netrek-dev, I’m teaching a class on TCP/IP network programming and publishing my “practice” videos on YouTube. My most recent video covers type-length-value encoding. It starts with a review of the Netrek network protocol, which is type-value, and discusses how the lack of a length field makes adding new message types to the protocol difficult (because the recipient wouldn’t know how many bytes to advance after encountering an unknown message type). Apologies for highlighting a weakness of the Netrek network protocol, but I show proper respect to the grandfather of modern internet video games and was happy to incorporate Netrek into my class. Darrell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4msYpc_uF4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4msYpc_uF4> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20211029/0321e56e/attachment.htm>