14. Using the programming language of your choice that supports
user-defined automatic type conversions, define a type netint and
supply conversions that enable assignments and equality
comparisons between ints and netints. Can a generalization
of this approach solve the problem of network argument
marshalling?
15. Different architectures have different conventions on bit order as
well as byte order—whether the least significant bit of a byte, for
example, is bit 0 or bit 7. RFC 791 [Pos81] defines (in its
Appendix B) the standard network bit order. Why is bit order then
not relevant to presentation formatting?