Re: [Cbor] Reminder and call for agenda: CBOR WG Virtual Meeting on 2023-05-31

Thanks, Anders.
This certainly should be part of the discussion on the 31st, perhaps
with further follow-up discussion on the mailing list.

Barry

On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 12:35 AM Anders Rundgren
<anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Barry & CBOR WG,
>
> Although the stuff I'm working with may superficially appear similar to dCBOR, these efforts are in fact entirely different.
>
> My project (coined "CBOR everywhere"), is about creating a "baseline" CBOR encoding profile for implementation by platform vendors in order to avoid the situation we got with JSON where for example Microsoft/C# and Oracle/Java interpreted the JSON RFC differently.
>
> Based on recent postings on the mailing list, the CBOR WG seems to rather be drifting towards the opposite goal; creating sector- or/and application-specific encoding profiles like dCBOR, "fintech", or breaking away from the crippling past (C/C++). Since I have no interests in such ventures, I won't attend the meeting.
>
> FWIW, I'm currently in the early phase of defining a CBOR JavaScript API for potential submission to the ECMA TC39 committee:
> https://github.com/cyberphone/cbor-js-api/blob/main/README.md#cbor-javascript-api [*]
> Whatever CBOR encoding scheme that eventually becomes a part of JavaScript, may very well emerge as the de-facto standard for platforms.  It is not great but it is certainly better than nothing :|
>
> Best Regards,
> Anders
>
> *] My JavaScript competence is fairly shallow so feel free suggesting improvements :)
>
> On 2023-05-25 19:34, Barry Leiba wrote:
> > Reminder:
> > CBOR one-hour Wednesday meeting on 31 May, at 14:00 UTC (16:00 CET).
> >
> > Information for this meeting is here:
> > Datatracker: hhttps://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2023-cbor-09/session/cbor <http://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2023-cbor-08/session/cbor>
> > Notes: https://notes.ietf.org/notes-ietf-interim-2023-cbor-09-cbor <https://notes.ietf.org/notes-ietf-interim-2023-cbor-08-cbor>
> > Meetecho: https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/interim/?short=872f9f0d-9c33-408e-ba89-65d4e83980e3 <https://meetings.conf.meetecho.com/interim/?short=872f9f0d-9c33-408e-ba89-65d4e83980e3>
> >
> > Please go to the notes and add to / adjust the agenda.
> > Please go to the notes and add your name to volunteer to help take notes.
> >
> > We already have the dCBOR discussion on the agenda, so this meeting WILL happen.
> >
> > Barry
> >
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