Hi Rajini, One question below.
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:47 AM, Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@googlemail.com > wrote: > 1. With GSSAPI, the first context establishment packet starts with the > byte 0x60 (tag for APPLICATION-0) followed by a variable-length encoded > size, followed by various tags and contents. And the packet also > contains a > checksum. This is completely different from the mechanism packet from > Kafka > clients which start with a two-byte version set to zero currently, > followed > by just a String mechanism. > Would it be better to assign an id to each mechanism and pass that instead of the String? That would be more space-efficient. Ismael