Re: [Cbor] [Rats] I-D: draft-rundgren-cote-00

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 21 July 2022 05:47 UTC

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On 21. Jul 2022, at 07:09, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
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> As Carsten also pointed out, the CBOR WG has a bit of homework to do in order to create a robust repository of tags and associated (URL-based) definitions.

Well, the IANA registry for tags already is very robust (and already better than any purely URL-based mechanism).
Creating a document with “backups” (and a discussion of) specification references just improves that further.
Calling that “homework” is grossly misleading.

Grüße, Carsten