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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 22 May 2013 16:29 UTC

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From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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> I would like to have available a BER like encoding for JSON.

What is it that you like about BER?
(And, as you mentioned there are a couple, which BER do you like :-)?

> But this proposal seems to be something rather different.

We try to learn.

CBOR can sure do everything a "BER for JSON" could do.  And a little more.

Grüße, Carsten

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