[Cbor] [Errata Held for Document Update] RFC8610 (6278)

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The following errata report has been held for document update 
for RFC8610, "Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL): A Notational Convention to Express Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) and JSON Data Structures". 

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6278

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Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical

Reported by: Eric Seppanen <eds@reric.net>
Date Reported: 2020-09-04
Held by: Barry Leiba (IESG)

Section: Appendix B

Original Text
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BCHAR = %x20-26 / %x28-5B / %x5D-10FFFD / SESC / CRLF


Corrected Text
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BCHAR = %x20-26 / %x28-5B / %x5D-7E / %x80-10FFFD / SESC / CRLF


Notes
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Between draft 6 and 7 of the RFC, the ASCII DELETE character 0x7F was excluded from the character set allowed in text literals.  I believe it should also be excluded from the character set of bytestring literals.

A 0x7F byte could not be decoded if included in a hex or base64 bytestring, leaving only UTF-8 bytestrings.  Since there is no discussion in the text of any reason to allow this character in a UTF-8 bytestring when it was not allowed in a UTF-8 text string, I suspect this was an oversight.

===== Verifier notes =====
It was, indeed, an oversight, but discussion on the CBOR working group list shows that the proper fix is not straightforward, and that it should be handled in the next version of the spec.

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RFC8610 (draft-ietf-cbor-cddl-08)
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Title               : Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL): A Notational Convention to Express Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) and JSON Data Structures
Publication Date    : June 2019
Author(s)           : H. Birkholz, C. Vigano, C. Bormann
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Concise Binary Object Representation Maintenance and Extensions
Area                : Applications and Real-Time
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG