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Re: [Cbor] Packed CBOR review

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 17 June 2021 11:23 UTC

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On 2021-06-17, at 13:17, Brendan Moran <Brendan.Moran@arm.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Packed-CBOR-Dictionary = [ ?reference, [*shared], [*prefix], [*suffix]]
>> 
>> Probably.
>> Should that get a tag?
> 
> I don’t think it needs one, but feel free to convince me otherwise. Its use should always be explicit since it’s always known by a compressor or decompressor. It should always be in a map of reference/table pairs.

Actually, I think this should get a media-type, and appropriate content-format numbers (and then it would work with file-magic as well).

Grüße, Carsten

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