On 8/13/2013 3:20 PM, Joe Hildebrand wrote:
One of the reasons why I like the CBOR tag applied to a byte stream is
that
it can be used to skip parsing on entire sections (no matter their
underlying types) in processors that don't need to understand that section.
This is an example of the core reason that having a "one true standard"
is not appropriate for many topics: design choices optimize along
particular axes, giving particular optimizations, typically at the
expense of others. Different operating context benefit from different
optimizations.
It makes sense for a specification to document its tradeoffs; it often
does not make sense to choose only one such specification for use in all
scenarios.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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