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[CFRG] Re: Where should test vectors live?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 20 September 2024 08:25 UTC

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On 2024-09-20, at 10:18, Björn Haase <bjoern.haase@endress.com> wrote:
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> What do you think?

Well, as I said, maintaining a JSON blob separate from the document decouples the evolution of the two, which has advantages and disadvantages.

I was mainly trying to point out that we do have some means to include sourcecode-like snippets in RFCs *when that is the right thing to do*.
You may have other reasons not to want that, but the technicalities aren’t those.

> Does anybody wee a way to avoid the additional Base64 encoding layer, such that JSON
> Content could be directly integrated in a RFC as-is?

Well, RFC 8792 is exactly that, and I don’t share your hesitation:

> However, we might get problems with automatically reading the wrapped text result automatically for re-constructing the test vectors.

If there are tools you need for this beyond kramdown-rfc-extract-sourcecode, I’m sure the tools team and other tools contributors would be interested to know.

Grüße, Carsten

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