[bind10-dev] OpenReg's communications framework

[Francis Dupont]

> An "item" is either a literal string of bytes, a NULL, a HASH, or a LIST.

=> is there a notion of pointer? This is needed to express sharing,
for instance for data structures like cyclic graphs. Without it not
only some data structures have an infinite representation but it can
be very inefficient. Perhaps it is coded with a dictionary of shared
items?

Francis_Dupont at isc.org