Re: [COSE] Comments on draft-ietf-cose-rfc8152bis-struct-07 and draft-ietf-cose-rfc8152bis-algs-06

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 03 December 2019 08:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [COSE] Comments on draft-ietf-cose-rfc8152bis-struct-07 and draft-ietf-cose-rfc8152bis-algs-06
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On Dec 3, 2019, at 07:21, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:
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> [JLS] I just went through the document again and made sure that I was consistent.  I am always using either "byte string" or "string".  The latter is used for text strings.  I am not sure that 

(I’m not sure what you wanted to say what you aren’t sure of…
The sentence didn’t finish.)

I’m also in favor of being specific and saying “byte string” or “text string”.

Grüße, Carsten