Re: [Anima] [netconf] what to call different RFC8366 format artifacts

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Tue, 03 November 2020 20:24 UTC

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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 21:23:55 +0100
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
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Subject: Re: [Anima] [netconf] what to call different RFC8366 format artifacts
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On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 12:05:35PM -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> So to bikeshed the whole thing, please comment on preference in naming:
> 
> 1) RFC8366:    CMS-signed-JSON  vs JSON-in-CMS.
> 2) CV:         CMS-signed-CBOR  vs CBOR-in-CMS.
> 3) CV:         COSE-signed-CBOR vs CBOR-in-COSE.
> 4) future ID:  JWS-signed-JSON  vs JSON-in-JOSE.
> 
> I note that for some of these "signed" is redundant.
> We do not have COSE-signed-JSON, or JWS-signed-CBOR.
> 
> Which feels more natural to you?
>

For me, all the $foo-signed-$bar expansions make sense and they stress
the signature aspect:

CMS-signed-JSON  = Cryptographic Message Syntax signed
                   JavaScript Object Notation
CMS-signed-CBOR  = Cryptographic Message Syntax signed
                   Concise Binary Object Representation
COSE-signed-CBOR = CBOR Object Signing and Encryption signed
                   Concise Binary Object Representation
JWS-signed-JSON  = JSON Web Signature signed
                   JavaScript Object Notation

The $foo-in-$bar alternative somehow stresses containment but I assume
the primary reason for using CMS / COSE / JWS is for signatures, not
for containment.

/js (German, in case that matters.)

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