Re: [Cbor] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-date-tag-06: (with COMMENT)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 03 September 2020 09:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-date-tag-06: (with COMMENT)
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On 2020-09-03, at 11:03, Robert Wilton via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> I find the wording of "unsigned or negative" to be slightly jarring, presumably
> written this way to include 0 in the set of allowed values.

Well, these are the two component major types we have in CBOR (0 for unsigned, 1 for negative) that together are used to span the integers, so I think we should stick with the established terminology.

Grüße, Carsten