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Re: [Cbor] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-file-magic-11: (with COMMENT)

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sat, 23 April 2022 16:06 UTC

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Comments: In-reply-to Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> message dated "Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:56:13 +0200."
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Subject: Re: [Cbor] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-cbor-file-magic-11: (with COMMENT)
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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    > But then, making life easy for implementers is important, and so making
    > the first 8 bytes compatible with being stored in a C string may also
    > be an appropriate accommodation.

That's my thought.

Don't make your *own* life hard by picking a number that hard for your to
deal with in the language you are using.  The whole point here is to have
something that is easy to see for computers, and for humans staring a hex dumps.

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