[Cbor] Fwd: [COSE] Preferred serialization normative language

For some reason Laurence’s message (and thus my reply) went to COSE, while I think it really should have gone to CBOR.
Please see the archived-at link for the whole (short) thread.

Grüße, Carsten

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> From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
> Subject: Re: [COSE] Preferred serialization normative language
> Date: February 29, 2024 at 22:25:36 GMT+1
> To: "lgl island-resort.com" <lgl@island-resort.com>
> Cc: cose <cose@ietf.org>
> Archived-At: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cose/XtKiOzb1kRe5jRaxLwQ9orHEFDE>
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> On Feb 29, 2024, at 20:23, lgl island-resort.com <lgl@island-resort.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I ended up writing normative language for preferred serialization.
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> I’m normally not a big fan of restatements [1], but I think something like this could go into an appendix of CDE.
> 
> (BTW, there is a reason we didn’t say "All decoders should detect duplicates and error out.” in RFC 8949.
> I more than agree with the objective here, but some “decoders” [more generally: processors] cannot usefully do this.)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
> [1]: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-bormann-restatement-00.html
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