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Re: [Cbor] File extension for cbor sequences

Sean Leonard <dev+ietf@seantek.com> Wed, 25 September 2019 14:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] File extension for cbor sequences
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On 9/25/2019 6:49 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On 25 Sep 2019, at 6:15, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>
>> This is now actually the last thing missing before I can declare that 
>> all IESG comments have been addressed.
>>
>> RFC 7049 defines .cbor as the file extension for single encoded CBOR 
>> data items.
>>
>> draft-ietf-cbor-sequence doesn’t define one, because it copied that 
>> RFC 7464 (JSON Text Sequences) doesn’t define one, not because of 
>> some actual thinking about the question.
>>
>> Do we want to go for .cborseq?  Better ideas?  Probably not .csq 
>> (*)?  Since this is bike-shedding, I’d like to timebox this decision 
>> (to today?).
>
> Preference: don't give one, just like JSON sequences.

+1

Not .csq for aforementioned reasons.

While .cborseq is better, my preference is also to omit it entirely.

We don't need a repeat of .DER. (Where DER = Distinguished Encoding 
Rules but the file extension mainly is used for binary X.509 
certificates. A file extension that represents the actual data--rather 
than the generic encoding format--is preferable.)

Sean

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