Re: [Cbor] I-D Action: draft-ietf-cbor-packed-03.txt

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

cbor-packed expired today, so I made a -03 with the various small edits that have accrued since -02.  As we said at IETF111, we are collecting implementation experience at this point, going forward once enough such experience is available.

Grüße, Carsten


>        Title           : Packed CBOR
>        Author          : Carsten Bormann
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-cbor-packed-03.txt
> 	Pages           : 18
> 	Date            : 2021-08-13
> 
> Abstract:
>   The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR, RFC 8949) is a data
>   format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small
>   code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the
>   need for version negotiation.
> 
>   CBOR does not provide any forms of data compression.  CBOR data
>   items, in particular when generated from legacy data models often
>   allow considerable gains in compactness when applying data
>   compression.  While traditional data compression techniques such as
>   DEFLATE (RFC 1951) can work well for CBOR encoded data items, their
>   disadvantage is that the receiver needs to unpack the compressed form
>   to make use of data.
> 
>   This specification describes Packed CBOR, a simple transformation of
>   a CBOR data item into another CBOR data item that is almost as easy
>   to consume as the original CBOR data item.  A separate decompression
>   step is therefore often not required at the receiver.
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cbor-packed/
> 
> There is also an htmlized version available at:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-cbor-packed-03
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-cbor-packed-03