Re: [Cbor] Barry Leiba's Yes on draft-ietf-cbor-sequence-01: (with COMMENT)
Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Wed, 25 September 2019 20:20 UTC
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From: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:19:59 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Barry Leiba's Yes on draft-ietf-cbor-sequence-01: (with COMMENT)
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Thanks! b On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 8:40 AM Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote: > > Hi Barry, > > On Sep 11, 2019, at 22:37, Barry Leiba via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote: > > > > Barry Leiba has entered the following ballot position for > > draft-ietf-cbor-sequence-01: Yes > > > > When responding, please keep the subject line intact and reply to all > > email addresses included in the To and CC lines. (Feel free to cut this > > introductory paragraph, however.) > > > > > > Please refer to https://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/discuss-criteria.html > > for more information about IESG DISCUSS and COMMENT positions. > > > > > > The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cbor-sequence/ > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > COMMENT: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Thanks for a fine and mostly easy-to-read document. There’s just one bit that > > I find hard to read: > > > > — Section 2 — > > > > Decoding a CBOR Sequence works as follows: > > > > o If the CBOR Sequence is an empty sequence of bytes, the result is > > an empty sequence of CBOR data model values. > > > > o Otherwise, decode a single CBOR data item from the bytes of the > > CBOR sequence, and insert the resulting CBOR data model value at > > the start of the result of decoding the rest of the bytes as a > > CBOR sequence. (A streaming decoder would therefore simply > > deliver zero or more CBOR data model values, each of which as soon > > as the bytes making it up are available.) > > > > I find the phrasing of the second bullet (the part “at the start of the result > > of decoding the rest of the bytes as a CBOR sequence.”) really hard to parse. > > After a brief email exchange between Carsten and me before he zipped off on > > holidays, I propose this minor re-wording: > > > > NEW > > o Otherwise, decode a single CBOR data item from the bytes of the > > CBOR sequence, and insert the resulting CBOR data model value at > > the start of the result of repeating this decoding process > > recursively. (A streaming decoder would therefore simply > > deliver zero or more CBOR data model values, each as soon > > as the bytes making it up are available.) > > END > > > > Does that work for you, Carsten? > > Almost. > This doesn’t say what the decoding process is applied to, so I added “with the remaining bytes”: > > * Otherwise, decode a single CBOR data item from the bytes of the CBOR > sequence, and insert the resulting CBOR data model value at the > start of the result of repeating this decoding process recursively > with the remaining bytes. (A streaming decoder would therefore > simply deliver zero or more CBOR data model values, each as soon as > the bytes making it up are available.) > > Now in https://github.com/cbor-wg/seq/commit/ffa99b279f6ba91176b1af418388873f57390585 > > Grüße, Carsten > >
- [Cbor] Barry Leiba's Yes on draft-ietf-cbor-seque… Barry Leiba via Datatracker
- Re: [Cbor] Barry Leiba's Yes on draft-ietf-cbor-s… Carsten Bormann
- Re: [Cbor] Barry Leiba's Yes on draft-ietf-cbor-s… Barry Leiba