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

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 22 May 2013 16:16 UTC

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On May 22, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think we can all agree that *A* binary format would be useful and that two dozen are not useful.

Nope, that is patently absurd. That would only be true if everyone agreed on all the design goals and decisions for the one binary format, and that clearly cannot happen.

--Paul Hoffman