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Re: [Cbor] 🔔 Confirmation call for Working Group Adoption for draft-greevenbosch-appsawg-cbor-cddl

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sun, 09 July 2017 20:37 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] 🔔 Confirmation call for Working Group Adoption for draft-greevenbosch-appsawg-cbor-cddl
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> I didn't think that CDDL would always require a normative reference from a
> standards track document.
> 
> My feeling is that if the structures are relatively simple that the CDDL is
> self-describing.  Most readers and implementers won't need to go further.

I agree with the sentiment — but that’s not what happened with COSE (RFC 8152); IESG is going to insist on either duplicating all the normative content that uses CDDL, in another format (read: plain English (*)), or having a normative reference for CDDL.  I cannot really disagree with that from a formal point of view, so let’s make that happen.

Grüße, Carsten

(*) I seriously started writing a CDDL to “plain English” converter, but then the situation defused a bit when the WG almost unanimously decided they wanted to have the CDDL in the main document.

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