On 8/6/13 1:11 PM, "Carsten Bormann" <cabo@xxxxxxx> wrote: >If a CBOR application does require initial signature bytes for >self-description purposes, I would suggest using something like > > 0xd8 0xf8 ...data item... > >which decodes as tag248(data item); we could define 248 as a no-op tag. Or a no-op simple value; we could easily pick one that did not generate a valid first character for JSON. -- Joe Hildebrand