Standard for Network Floating Point Numbers

[ark at alice.UUCP]

In article <13098 at brl-adm.ARPA>, mike at BRL.ARPA writes:
> Because we chose to use the IEEE 754 representation, sent in Big-Endian
> order, I suspect that there should not be a whole lot of debate about
> such a standard.

IEEE 754 says nothing about the sequence of bits within a word.
Even a machine that stores all the even-numbered bits and then
all the odd-numbered bits is permitted.