DICOM: "Designed by a committee" would be an understatement. This is the only protocol I've seen where the envelope is a different byte order from the payload.

DICOM: "Designed by a committee" would be an understatement. This is the only protocol I've seen where the envelope is a different byte order from the payload. At least in practice, IIRC the payload can be specified as either, but in practice it's always swapped compared to the envelope.