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[Cbor] Re: Consensus call on EDN literals single ABNF

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 25 July 2024 18:59 UTC

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On 24. Jul 2024, at 01:30, Pete Resnick <resnick=40episteme.net@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> app-string = app-string-h
> / app-string-b64
> / app-string-dt
> / app-string-ip
> / app-string-gen
> 
> app-string-gen = app-prefix sqstr ; generic app-string

So why don’t we always use app-string-gen?
(That is the two-layer model.)
The way you write it looks like a premature optimization for the five cases that happen to be in this document.

Grüße, Carsten

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