Re: [Cbor] I-D Action: draft-ietf-cbor-packed-11.txt

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

At the 2024-02-21 interim we had good in-room support for adding the record function tag, for which Mikolai supplied new text.
We also extended the member-removing role that »undefined« has in the record tag to basic map concatenation.
The new energy from adding a new co-author also led to a number of cleanups.

I submitted this now (with the last pull request not even merged yet) so you all can have a look at the diff link below.
This document has sizzled in the implementation pan for a while, and it should be au point now.
We still have a week to submit another update for IETF 119, so please send in these comments.

Grüße, Carsten



> On 2024-02-26, at 22:13, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> Internet-Draft draft-ietf-cbor-packed-11.txt is now available. It is a work
> item of the Concise Binary Object Representation Maintenance and Extensions
> (CBOR) WG of the IETF.
> 
>   Title:   Packed CBOR
>   Authors: Carsten Bormann
>            Mikolai Gütschow
>   Name:    draft-ietf-cbor-packed-11.txt
>   Pages:   29
>   Dates:   2024-02-26
> 
> Abstract:
> 
>   The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR, RFC 8949 == STD 94)
>   is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of
>   extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and
>   extensibility without the need for version negotiation.
> 
>   CBOR does not provide any forms of data compression.  CBOR data
>   items, in particular when generated from legacy data models, often
>   allow considerable gains in compactness when applying data
>   compression.  While traditional data compression techniques such as
>   DEFLATE (RFC 1951) can work well for CBOR encoded data items, their
>   disadvantage is that the receiver needs to decompress the compressed
>   form to make use of the data.
> 
>   This specification describes Packed CBOR, a simple transformation of
>   a CBOR data item into another CBOR data item that is almost as easy
>   to consume as the original CBOR data item.  A separate decompression
>   step is therefore often not required at the receiver.
> 
> 
>   // The present version (-11) adds an author, the "record" function
>   // tag (TBD114), a special role for the simple value undefined, and a
>   // number of editorial cleanups.
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cbor-packed/
> 
> There is also an HTML version available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-cbor-packed-11.html
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-cbor-packed-11