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[Cbor] Re: Criteria for "rough consensus to keep"

Rohan Mahy <rohan.mahy@gmail.com> Sat, 11 July 2026 04:05 UTC

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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:05:00 +0200
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What about my inline questions about use in the wild?
thx,
-r

On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 5:56 AM Joe Hildebrand <hildjj@cursive.net> wrote:

> Those both make sense to me.
>
> —
> Joe Hildebrand
>
> > On Jul 10, 2026, at 9:46 PM, Rohan Mahy <rohan.mahy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
[snip]

>

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2026, 07:34 Joe Hildebrand, <hildjj@cursive.net> wrote:
> > Here is my suggestion for criteria, with the goal to produce a document
> that has the minimum subset of new features for which the WG has clear
> consensus in a relatively short amount of time:
> >
> > 1. If the feature exists in RFC 8949 or RFC 8610, and is in -26, it will
> not be considered for removal.
> >
>



> > Do we want to consider whether there are any RFCs that actually use the
> feature? (It is actually possible to enumerate this entire list using the
> datatracker). If so, there are features in RFC 8610 that I believe don't
> appear in EDN in any RFC (except 8610 itself):
> > - comments inside h'' and b64''
> > - hexfloat syntax: 0x1.8p0  and  0x18p-4
> > - octal (0o11147) and binary (0b1001001100111) integer forms
> >
>


> > Do we want to consider # end of line comments as "previewed" in RFC8610
> since they are mentioned in G.6?
>
>

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