Serialization formats are dime a dozen. Cooking up your own variation of TLV (+ TV for fixed-size T's) is dead easy and can typically be done a spot by anyone w

Serialization formats are dime a dozen. Cooking up your own variation of TLV (+ TV for fixed-size T's) is dead easy and can typically be done a spot by anyone without any prior experience. As such I doubt "the author read the XDR code", though perhaps you weren't wondering that at all, but rather wanted to mention XDR and ASN.1, in which case you should've really just done that. As it's written, it makes "the author" look like either an ignorant imbecile who doesn't know such basics as XDR or as someone who piggy-backed on XDR without acknowledging it.