Re: [Cbor] I-D Action: draft-ietf-cbor-file-magic-06.txt

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 11 November 2021 13:55 UTC

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On 11. Nov 2021, at 14:44, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> 
>> So it’s like a CBOR sequence, except that only the first item is CBOR,
>> and rest is arbitrary media type till end of file.
> 
> I think that this is very invasive, but perhaps there are uses/users I haven't imagined.

Might not make a lot of sense for, say, JSON files, but we can find examples where it does.

Grüße, Carsten