Re: [Cbor] Review of draft-bormann-cbor-sequence

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sun, 23 June 2019 16:53 UTC

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Hi Jim,

except for items 3 and 5 below, where I don’t quite agree, I believe I have addressed all your comments as well as the other items that popped up for -00 in Prague and on the mailing list.

Please enjoy at:

Status:   https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bormann-cbor-sequence/
Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bormann-cbor-sequence
Diff2:    https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-bormann-cbor-sequence-01.txt

Grüße, Carsten


> On May 15, 2019, at 04:56, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:
> 
> […]
> 3.  Section 2 - I think that I would remove the parenthesis in the third
> paragraph.  This is almost the entire paragraph.

I believe that is useful information, so I don’t think the parenthesis should be removed.

> […]
> 5.  Section 2 - A program, not the decoder, may also be able to recover by
> decoding individual fields looking for a pattern that matches an expected
> structure.  As an example, looking for a byte which corresponds to an array
> of 3 items and then test decoding to see if it works and continue from that
> point.

The specific recovery actions are out of scope (and the text says so).
I don’t think we should give advice here for diagnostic tools beyond what is needed for a true decoder.