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Re: [Cbor] Roman Danyliw's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-cddl-control-06: (with COMMENT)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 20 October 2021 15:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Roman Danyliw's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-cddl-control-06: (with COMMENT)
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Hi Roman,

On 2021-10-20, at 16:05, Roman Danyliw via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENT:
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> 
> ** Section 2.2.  Checking my understanding of string concatenation:
> 
> (a) “Target and controller MUST be strings”
> 
> (b) “If the target is a text string, the result of that concatenation MUST be
> valid UTF-8”.
> 
> There is a distinction being made between a “text string” and “byte string” per
> Section 3.1 of RFC8610?

In the context of CDDL we do distinguish between text strings and byte strings (inherited from CBOR, which pretty much started to exist when we couldn’t get that distinction cleanly introduced into msgpack in 2012).

Maybe we can honor POLA (*) by not using “strings” to refer to the type union of either, while keeping the reader unsuspecting.

Now https://github.com/cbor-wg/cddl-control/pull/12

Grüße, Carsten

(*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment
(not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege :-)

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