Hi Rob,

> Thank you for your work on this. Of all the RFCs I've seen in awhile, this 
> one is one that I'm most excited to see after writing a protobuf 
> implementation.

Happy to see you immediately have a use case in mind while reading this!

> If there is one thing I would be over the moon for, it would be for also 
> adding zigzag encoding as a possible signed integer encoding (maybe using Z/z 
> as the letter)?

I wasn't aware this encoding existed. I'm happy to learn about it!
Unfortunately, Z is already used with pack/unpack. After a quick
research, I think it would be a nice feature. I also noticed that
languages like Rust and Python use external packages for this it
seems. I guess it would be better to have dedicated functions. I don't
think it should be included in this RFC, but that is an interesting
idea nevertheless. I'd be really interested if someone comes up with
an RFC for this feature!

— Alexandre Daubois

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