I replied in the forum, but to save bouncing back and forth between email and the public comment forums, this is the reply: This format contains strings that use us-ascii-7-bit-packed encoding, signed integers, and single-bit flags. The format in question is a header format. It is also possible for them to contain "payloads" that use 8-bit characters. However, complex types composed of these simple types all depend on this bit ordering as well. Mike Beckerle | OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair | Tresys Technology | www.tresys.com Please note: Contributions to the DFDL Workgroup's email discussions are subject to the OGF Intellectual Property Policy<http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Steve Hanson <smh@uk.ibm.com> wrote:

I have replied to the topic with a question

Regards

Steve Hanson Architect, IBM Data Format Description Language (DFDL) Co-Chair, *OGF DFDL Working Group* <http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/> IBM SWG, Hursley, UK* **smh@uk.ibm.com* <smh@uk.ibm.com> tel:+44-1962-815848

From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> To: "dfdl-wg@ogf.org" <dfdl-wg@ogf.org>, Date: 26/09/2013 22:39 Subject: [DFDL-WG] new public comment: byteOrder not sufficient. Need bitOrder. Sent by: dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org ------------------------------

Please see *http://redmine.ogf.org/boards/15/topics/43*<http://redmine.ogf.org/boards/15/topics/43>

This is a big stumbling block for us and our customers with the current draft.

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