[Cbor] [IANA #1147225] Request for Assignment (websocket)

HI Carsten, all,

We received a suggestion from the ADs that we specifically ask about the utility of websocket subprotocol IDs for CBOR (and, on that mailing list, JSON). Are there issues there? 

thanks,

Amanda Baber
Lead IANA Services Specialist

On Tue Sep 17 05:32:30 2019, cabo@tzi.org wrote:
> To me it seems such a protocol would be about cbor sequences, not
> single cbor data items. The fact that I have to guess this,
> demonstrates the registration request is underspecified.
> 
> Sent from mobile, sorry for terse
> 
> > On 17. Sep 2019, at 07:49, Amanda Baber <amanda.baber@iana.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > IANA has received a request to register "cbor" in the WebSocket
> > Subprotocol Name registry at
> >
> > https://www.iana.org/assignments/websocket/websocket.xml#subprotocol-
> > name
> >
> > Barry Leiba and Alexey Melnikov suggested asking this mailing list
> > for opinions on this request.
> >
> > This is all of the information that was provided:
> >
> > ===
> >
> > Type of Assignment:
> > WebSocket Subprotocol ID: `cbor`, Common Name: `Concise Binary Object
> > Representation`
> >
> > Description:
> > A concise binary object format for representing structured data.
> > Defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049
> >
> > ===
> >
> > We understand that if this registration can be made, the RFC should
> > not be listed on its own in the Subprotocol Definition field. In
> > addition, we currently have only the requester's name to list in the
> > registry's "Reference" field.
> >
> > We're also asking the JSON mailing list to comment on a request to
> > register "json."
> >
> > thanks,
> > Amanda
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