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[Cbor] Re: Working Group Last Call on Serialization draft

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 01 September 2026 06:51 UTC

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On Sep 1, 2026, at 08:39, Laurence Lundblade <lgl@island-resort.com> wrote:
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> I think RFC 8949 presents the idea of a [Generic Decoder] that accepts all serializations,

The term “generic decoder" was introduced right in 2013 in RFC 7049 (Section 3.2).
It stands for CBOR’s normally JSON-like operation (every decoder can decode the whole format), in contrast to what we’d call “partial implementations” today.

Grüße, Carsten

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