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Re: [Cbor] [Anima] Creating CBOR-based media types and content formats

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 22 July 2021 20:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] [Anima] Creating CBOR-based media types and content formats
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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    >> I don't think you should hide the example in the appendix.
    >>
    >> Rather, I think that you should make it the core of the document,
    >> explaining each bit of arcana.

    > That sounds like a great project for long winter evenings at the
    > fireside.  (Macintosh file type code(s)?  Fragment identifier
    > considerations?)

Yeah.
(I was cooling down in my unheated my pool last week, wondering why I can't
edit code while floating.  firesides would be other nice places)

    >> If it's worth publishing this as a new RFC, then it's worth obsoleting
    >> RFC6838.

    > It has no normative intent (*) (and it doesn’t cover a tenth of 6838).

okay, then Updates/Amends-6838, and replaces the template part then.

    >> Otherwise, I suggest some nice HTML, maybe in the new-fangled
    >> single-hop-over-building wiki.  ("Go big, or go home")

    > I think my parser is failing here.

I'm saying that if we aren't going to publish, then it goes into the new wiki.

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