Subject: [COSE] Detached Payload Header for dag-cose spec

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:57:10 +0000

Greetings,
We are a working group made up of members of the IPFS community ( https://ipfs.io ) that are working on content encryption. As a lot of the IPFS ecosystem already uses CBOR we are considering COSE as the basis for our new specification.
Especially the detached Payload feature is of interest to us, we need to communicate the location (or ”way of accessing”) in the message, however, and would like to register a header for this purpose.
I have a few questions regarding this:
1.
How does the registration process look like? What do you need me/us to provide to you to get this going?
2.
As there is no ”official” header for this purpose, would it be better to specify a more general header for everyone to use in this case?

We are unsure about names at the moment, ”content-location” and ”old-content” are possible names. This depends on 2. though.

Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards,

Jonas Kruckenberg