Re: [Cbor] Packed CBOR review

Christian Amsüss <christian@amsuess.com> Fri, 18 June 2021 08:01 UTC

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Hi,

> > I don’t think it needs one, but feel free to convince me otherwise.
> > Its use should always be explicit since it’s always known by a
> > compressor or decompressor. It should always be in a map of
> > reference/table pairs.
> 
> Actually, I think this should get a media-type, and appropriate
> content-format numbers (and then it would work with file-magic as
> well).

I agree, a content-format number would suffice.

I can't tell whether it should get a self-describing tag *too* or
whether the one that comes with the content format (in which the table
is wrapped in a bstr) suffices.

BR
c

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