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Christopher Patton <cpatton=3D40cloudflare.com@dmarc.ietf.org> writes:=0A=
=0A=
>How do folks feel about pointing to machine readable test vectors from an =
RFC=0A=
>in lieu of producing human-friendly, but machine-unfriendly in the appendi=
x?=0A=
>Suppose for example an RFC had a pointer to a JSON blob somewhere on=0A=
>datatracker. Is this feasible/desirable?=0A=
=0A=
For RFC 8894 I just put them on github:=0A=
=0A=
  Samples of SCEP messages are available through the JSCEP project [JSCEP] =
in=0A=
  the src/samples directory.=0A=
=0A=
  [JSCEP] "A Java implementation of the Simple Certificate Enrolment=0A=
  Protocol", commit 7410332, January 2020, <https://github.com/jscep/jscep>=
.=0A=
=0A=
That makes things easy, you can directly download the binaries without havi=
ng=0A=
to faff around with decoding whatever ad-hoc format the RFC has adopted, an=
d=0A=
if your code is already on Github can just pull the data directly into your=
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project.=0A=
=0A=
Peter.=