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Re: [Cbor] List of not-well-formed CBOR and test vectors

Laurence Lundblade <lgl@island-resort.com> Sun, 04 August 2019 00:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] List of not-well-formed CBOR and test vectors
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> On Aug 3, 2019, at 10:07 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
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> On Aug 3, 2019, at 18:54, Laurence Lundblade <lgl@island-resort.com <mailto:lgl@island-resort.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Will turn this in to an appendix for CBORbis in about a week. 
> 
> Do you think the test vectors need to be in the document?
> I’d rather leave them in a resource that directly can be used by implementers.

I was thinking both. The RFC is so much more widely available and read than any .h file or such that I think it is worth putting them in. I was thinking an appendix, formatted in a three column table so it doesn’t take up pages.

LL

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