Marc Petit-Huguenin <petithug@xxxxxxx> writes: > I did some research and you were right, starting from the left side is > more common. My main counter-example is in fact in STUN itself as > figure 3: > > 0 1 > 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 > +--+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > |M |M |M|M|M|C|M|M|M|C|M|M|M|M| > |11|10|9|8|7|1|6|5|4|0|3|2|1|0| > +--+--+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ [...] That's an interesting complication. As you've noted, it's nearly universal for IETF documents to use big-endian numbering. But the above example is paradoxical, as the bits are numbered in a big-endian way across the top of the diagram, from 2 to 15, while being numbered in a littl-endian way is the boxes, from 11 to 0. I had noticed that the top numbers didn't start at 0 (so I didn't count this figure in my "8 out of 10"), but I overlooked the numbers in the boxes. Dale
