Re: [Cbor] Migrating a spec to structured fields

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 10 March 2021 08:28 UTC

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On 2021-03-10, at 09:15, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> the proposal is to use ABNF

Yeah, I was worried about that, too.

Instead of using ABNF for JSON texts, we have languages like CDDL.

Maybe something should be done now for structured HTTPheaders.
(It will be easy to add that to CDDL, if you want.)

Grüße, Carsten