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From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 01:14:59 +0200
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Hi Steve,

> On 26. Jul 2024, at 00:52, Steve Lasker <StevenLasker@hotmail.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> How much energy and acknowledgement is there around CBOR and COSE =
tooling? Does the CBOR community feel it=E2=80=99s not intended as a =
general-purpose data format, and it=E2=80=99s good enough? Or, is there =
a desire to make easier for more to use?

I think that this is a great question.
The CBOR WG is not really set up to answer it, but its mailing list is a =
good way to get some coordination.

Most of the gaps I=E2=80=99m aware of are in the way of integration into =
existing tools.
Typically, this integration is best done by people who already know =
about the functioning and complex interfaces of those tools.
If we find some people who are interested in supporting CBOR, this list =
might be a good place to find the help they might need from the CBOR =
side.
I=E2=80=99m certainly offering my help (if people want to work with =
someone who doesn=E2=80=99t know much in the way of VSCode or what your =
tool of choice might be).

It would also be good to collect some information on how well tools work =
that already have CBOR support (e.g., Wireshark) and possibly organize =
some remedies.

A third activity might be to collect links to howtos or softwares in an =
accessible form.

(Oh, and the position of the author of simdcbor is still open :-)

Gr=C3=BC=C3=9Fe, Carsten

PS.: Here are a few lines for your .emacs, if you like to operate on =
CBOR in YAML form.
Substitute =E2=80=9Cdiag=E2=80=9D for =E2=80=9Cyaml=E2=80=9D to work in =
CBOR EDN (but this might need a few more options).

(add-to-list 'jka-compr-compression-info-list
             ["\\.cbor$"
              "converting YAML to CBOR"
              "yaml2cbor.rb"
              ()
              "converting CBOR to YAML"
              "cbor2yaml.rb"
              ()
              nil nil ""])

(jka-compr-update)