Re: [Cbor] Tag 35

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Wed, 16 September 2020 15:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Tag 35
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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    > 2. Keep Tag 35 in RFC 7049bis, and make the PCRE reference (which is
    > really to a web page that is changing occasionally) normative.  We
    > would still not actually say which of the formats (PCRE, PCRE2, ES20xx,
    > and in which version) is actually in the tag content, and would
    > probably need to strengthen the language saying that.

?copy the web page, or point at the dated archive.org copy of the page?

    > 2a.  Do the same and make clear that one only gets interoperability by
    > keeping to the common subset of all these Perl-5-derived formats.

Seems like the best solution.

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