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

[Robert Wilton via Datatracker <[e-mail]>]

Robert Wilton has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-cbor-file-magic-11: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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Hi,

Apologies for a late review, and there is just one none blocking issue that I
wanted to raise:

   It is further
   suggested to avoid values that have an embedded zero byte in the four
   bytes of their binary representation (such as 0x12003456), as these
   may confuse implementations that treat the magic number as a C
   string.

I was less convinced by this statement because:
(1) It seems like C treating this as null terminated string is probably not the
right thing to do, I'm not sure that we should be implicitly endorsing that.
(2) When translating values from the Content-Format registry means that this
issue is presumably unavoidable.  I.e., it looks like your example in 2.2.1
violates this guidance.

Regards,
Rob