Re: [Cbor] Another view on tags

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 29 March 2019 11:13 UTC

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On Mar 29, 2019, at 12:07, Laurence Lundblade <lgl@island-resort.com> wrote:
> 
> It seems possible and sometimes useful to use these “extended types” without an explicit tag.

Yes.  A somewhat informal way to make use of this in CDDL is:

{
  Nbf: ~time
  Exp: ~time
}

(Where `time` is a `#6.1(number)` as per prelude.)

Grüße, Carsten