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

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Thu, 23 May 2013 09:17 UTC

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Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
> On May 22, 2013, at 11:43 AM, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Best bet: define the syntax, provide a couple of great open source
> > implementations, let people know about them.. then time will tell
> > whether it'll be worthwhile to standardize.
>
> Fully disagree. As a great recent counter-example, see what is happening
> in the MessagePack world which is following exactly what you suggest,
> and there is a lot of bad feelings.

Do you have a link we can look at to find out more?

Tony.
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