Re: [Cbor] [Ext] Erik Kline's Yes on draft-ietf-cbor-7049bis-14: (with COMMENT)

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org> Wed, 23 September 2020 19:29 UTC

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From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@icann.org>
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Thanks for your comments. Our notes are below.

--Paul Hoffman

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> COMMENT:
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> [[ questions ]]
>
> [ section 3.3 ]
>
> * Is it worth comparing and contrasting this encoding format with RFC 4506
>  section 4.6?  Are they identical?

They are not, and so probably not worth comparing, because...

> [[ comments ]]
>
> [ section 1 ]
>
> * I suppose XDR (4506) isn't well-known anymore.  :-(
>  (no edits necessary, just a comment)

...of that. That is, no one asked us to make the comparison when we wrote RFC 7049.

> [[ nits ]]
>
> [ section 1.2 ]
>
> * "does not include following extraneous data"
>  Is "following" important, or is it just "does not include other
>  extraneous data"?

Using "following" is important in that extraneous data could possibly appear before an item (although that seems weird).


> [ section 3.4.1 ]
>
> * Perhaps "another type or that" -> "another type or a text string that"

Good catch; fixed.

> [ section 5.6 ]
>
> * Perhaps "Not accept maps duplicate keys"
>  -> "Not accept maps with duplicate keys"?

Yes, definitely. Fixed.