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Re: [Cbor] Record proposal

Emile Cormier <emile.cormier.jr@gmail.com> Thu, 02 December 2021 09:49 UTC

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From: Emile Cormier <emile.cormier.jr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:48:54 -0400
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To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Record proposal
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On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 3:35 AM Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:


> > Without the semantic meaning, there isn't data loss; raw CBOR structures
> could always be transcoded to JSON or anything else (with conventions for
> tags and such)
>
> That doesn’t work in general: An array with two elements could be a valid
> data item as well, so you get ambiguity.
> Tags provide with a clean way to extend the data model.
>

For the record, the "Without the semantic meaning, there isn't data
loss..." remark was by Kris, not me.

I think it would have been cleaner for extensions to the data model to be
done purely in terms of the core data model. All tags should do is
*identify* the new data type and not provide a few extra bytes of storage
to that new data type.

Well it seems the genie is out of the bottle in terms of tag ranges being
used to "cheaply" store a few bytes of extra information and I'm not going
to convince you of putting the genie back in. :-)

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