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Re: [Cbor] 7049bis: Diagnostic notation gaps

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 22 September 2020 21:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] 7049bis: Diagnostic notation gaps
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On 2020-09-11, at 22:46, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
> 
>   Should we add this to 7049bis (which would be new functionality) or should we do this in a separate document?
>   (We did this for other diagnostic notation extensions, which are listed in RFC 8610.)

I think we now have a clear way forward for diagnostic notation for both 5fff/7fff and NaN payloads.

The former ostensibly has not really been a gap in RFC 7049, so we could address it in a clarification in 7049bis.

The latter is a new invention and so cannot really part of 7049bis, which is slated for Internet Standard and needs to meet the spirit of RFC 6410, which says:

   Minor revisions and the removal of unused
   features are expected, but a significant revision may require that
   the specification accumulate more experience at Proposed Standard
   before progressing.

Extending diagnostic notation is not a significant revision in that it will shatter the CBOR universe, but it is still new untested code that really should be in a separate document.

I would therefore like to close #204 and #205 now, and (if we want to treat 5fff/7fff as a clarification) add a small pull request for just that.

Grüße, Carsten

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