Subject: [Cbor] Progressing work on draft-ietf-cbor-7049bis

From: Francesca Palombini <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:14:14 +0000

Hi all,

In order to progress the draft, I'd like you to take a look at Jeffrey's proposals (quoted selected text from his mail below).

Only PR17 has gotten one comment so far (let's discuss it further). Note that the PR were submitted more than a month ago, if I hear no objections to them before the 11th of May, we'll ask the editors to go ahead and merge them, so please take a look and speak up. Even a "+1" is useful.

Big PR:
https://github.com/cbor-wg/CBORbis/pull/17 has a lot of changes to define which kinds of CBOR parsers need to detect which errors in the encoded data, and which errors are recoverable.

https://github.com/cbor-wg/CBORbis/pull/18 defines when the known kinds of tagged items are valid.

Minor PR:
https://github.com/cbor-wg/CBORbis/pull/14 removes the duplicate Data Models section.

https://github.com/cbor-wg/CBORbis/pull/19 fixes an example of Javascript being unable to distinguish strings from numbers when they're used as map keys

https://github.com/cbor-wg/CBORbis/pull/20/files changes a statement that depending on map order "would be very bad practice" in protocols using CBOR to a statement that these protocols "MUST NOT" do that.

Thank you,
Francesca & Barry