Re: [Cbor] Consolidated set of tags for map-like entities

Suggestion: make "Unique Keys: no" be a zero bit in the LSB, not 1, for ease of understanding the table.  Alternately, rename to "Allow duplicate keys".

In the "Key/Value Type" section, perhaps use 4 bits, so it's more clear which bits you're talking about?

Data Item being major type 5 should really only be used if the keys are homogeneously strings, in my opinion.

Overall, this feels like somewhat overkill, but solves the problem and I'd be fine with it if it allowed us to move on.

— 
Joe Hildebrand

> On Mar 12, 2021, at 4:50 PM, Emile Cormier <emile.cormier.jr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I've been corresponding privately with Prof. Bormann about a new tag I proposed for encoding multimaps as arrays or pairs. He's made me aware of your recent discussion about another proposed tag for encoding "ordered" maps, where the insertion order must be preserved. Carsten has indicated to me his desire to consolidate all of these map-related tags together.
> 
> I would like to contribute to this endeavor of consolidating map-related tags. To get the discussion started, I would like to share with you a draft proposal I've written to serve as a starting point: https://github.com/ecorm/cbor-map-like
> 
> Here's a brief summary:
> 
> This document proposes a consolidated set of CBOR tags for map-like entities involving key-value pairs. These tags encode the following meta-data concerning map-like entities:
> 	• the homogeneity of the key and value types,
> 	• the preservation of the insertion order of the key-value pairs,
> 	• the uniqueness of the keys, and,
> 	• the major type used to encode the key-value pairs.
> My interest in CBOR stems from my work on a new C++ serialization library that can support any JSON-like encoding. This library is closed source for now, but I may be able to convince my employer to make it open source in the future.
> 
> I'm also involved with the WAMP protocol, which allows CBOR as one of its encodings.
> 
> I'm looking forward to collaborating with you and I hope that we can come to a solution that satisfies everyone's needs.
> 
> Cheers,
> Emile Cormier
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