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Re: [apps-discuss] Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Thu, 23 May 2013 18:27 UTC

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On May 23, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
>> JSON ≠ JavaScript.
> 
> I'm aware.  But defining protocols that can't be implemented in JS
> because they use numbers that JS can't represent seems problematic.

As I said earlier on this thread, there is already an implementation in JavaScript.

--Paul Hoffman

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