[Cbor] Combination tags and CBOR Packed

Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> Fri, 28 August 2020 22:33 UTC

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Subject: [Cbor] Combination tags and CBOR Packed
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As a derivative thought from the question on loop detection and the ability
to have things reference other things.

Is it legal to stack up packing tags into a single item?   Is
6.229(6.232(simple(1)) legal and does it do what I would expect it to do.
Specifically it would concatenate three different value that are extracted
from the packing tables.

Jim