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Wheeler" In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 17:00:03 -0400 Message-Id: <7C667945-A60F-497C-8E7E-299F5ECB1D1E@justatheory.com> References: <8D7052CB-E394-4C38-9EEB-A198005042FE@tzi.org> <5E5FC34C-4F76-4F66-93E5-3A66DC631C54@justatheory.com> <0AFBC0B5-F16C-4EA9-9B71-FD8B22293545@justatheory.com> <96BB2673-7A58-4236-BBD9-B4B98C0A65FE@tzi.org> <4F9A592D-F910-4F6D-885D-B9751899CFC0@justatheory.com> To: Carsten Bormann X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3826.500.181.1.5) Message-ID-Hash: H5ELLUY5RB3LJMYYF3I5WO5WII6TDAYA X-Message-ID-Hash: H5ELLUY5RB3LJMYYF3I5WO5WII6TDAYA X-MailFrom: david@justatheory.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-cbor.ietf.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: cbor@ietf.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.9rc6 Precedence: list Subject: =?utf-8?q?=5BCbor=5D_Re=3A_Tag_for_Number_as_String=3F?= List-Id: "Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --Apple-Mail=_94EC0B8D-F05E-45ED-8E7C-D9D8322BD227 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 On May 12, 2025, at 16:28, Carsten Bormann wrote: > Strikes me a bit as =E2=80=9Ctrapdoor specification=E2=80=9D: > If you already know what it is, you think this is its specification=E2=80= =A6 > But yes, that is only mildly so; most people will figure it out. >=20 > The two last paragraphs of Section 6 of RFC 8259 are counterproductive = here though. > Some of the point of this tag is that you can put in numbers that are = not limited to IEEE 754 binary64 range and precision. Fair. I can cite the earlier session in a post with the details on my = blog or in a Gist or something. 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