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Re: [Cbor] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8610 (6278)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sun, 06 September 2020 05:22 UTC

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From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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We didn’t set out to mirror all the exclusion of Unicode in the ABNF. 
But the range has to end somewhere, and we happen to know the largest number is 10FFFD, so we took that.  Again, I think we struck the right balance. 

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> On 5. Sep 2020, at 21:20, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:
> 
> For that matter, even the value 10FFFD (or 10FFFF) can be considered detailed (and somewhat arcane) knowledge about Unicode. Removing that is left as an exercise.

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