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Re: [Cbor] List of not-well-formed CBOR and test vectors

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sat, 03 August 2019 17:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] List of not-well-formed CBOR and test vectors
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On Aug 3, 2019, at 18:54, Laurence Lundblade <lgl@island-resort.com> wrote:
> 
> Will turn this in to an appendix for CBORbis in about a week. 

Do you think the test vectors need to be in the document?
I’d rather leave them in a resource that directly can be used by implementers.

> marked as “reserved” in 7409 (I’d prefer to call them “permanently disallowed”

Well, reserved means “not available for allocation”.  I know that the term has occasionally been misused, but that is not a reason to excise it from all documents now.  These numbers are exactly as reserved as ai=28, 29, 30 are.  Not legal now, but very much available for a future standards effort if there ever is one that extends CBOR beyond its premeditated extension points.

Grüße, Carsten

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