I-D Action: draft-ietf-cbor-packed-08.txt

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        Title           : Packed CBOR
        Author          : Carsten Bormann
  Filename        : draft-ietf-cbor-packed-08.txt
  Pages           : 25
  Date            : 2023-01-23

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 (-08) is a refresh update to -07, which added
   // the concept of Tag Equivalence as initially discussed at the CBOR
   // Interim meeting 12 in 2022 and at IETF 114.


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