On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Gmail wrote: > Ok, wanting structured data is a decent argument, but why this random > arbitrary case in particular? There are hundreds of fields like this that > people might want to use. > Protocol buffers are designed to be extensible, and there are hundreds of field numbers available. It would be silly to add a "generic stuff" field inside a container format that ALREADY has all the mechanisms necessary for forwards and backwards extensibility. -- -- Gavin Andresen