Re: [Cbor] Publication has been requested for draft-ietf-cbor-array-tags-06

[Thiago Macieira <[e-mail]>]

On Thursday, 15 August 2019 08:25:07 PDT Carsten Bormann wrote:
> I think that writing a brief new document that allocates a tag or two for
> be/le bfloat16 typed arrays would be the obvious next step (and I sure can
> help you with generating that document next month, if you want).  If you
> think this should go into the existing specification instead, making a
> comment to this mailing list is a good first step (which you did); you
> could also make a more formal comment at the IETF last call that is likely
> to be next after AD review.

Can you at least reserve the full 32 tag range that would be allocated if the 
sign bit were used, then? That is, from tags 64 to 95, instead of just 64 to 
87.

Of course, bfloat16 doesn't need to be in that range, but it makes as much 
sense to use it as the little-endian 8-bit trick you used there.

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