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Re: [Cbor] Éric Vyncke's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-file-magic-11: (with COMMENT)

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 19 April 2022 16:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Éric Vyncke's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-file-magic-11: (with COMMENT)
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Thank you for your COMMENTs!
Carsten and I will work out some changes based upon your comments in a few days.

Éric Vyncke via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
    > I was about to ballot a DISCUSS due to the absence of BCP14 and any
    > normative language in a standard track document. Explanations from the
    > authors/WG/AD will be more than welcome as I am not convinced by the
    > shepherd's explanation ("let's avoid down ref in the future").

Hi, the document started out its life as a BCP.
_here is a cool way to do magic numbers with CBOR_

But, I think it was that BCPs can't allocate from certain registries, so it had to become Std Track.

...
    > Unsure whether the paragraph "A major inspiration ..." brings any value
    > to the text.

It's about motivation for doing this work.

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