Hi Carsten, As a no-hats, IETF-LC comment... On 08/10/2013 01:42 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > > Specialized binary formats like this TLV format are invented a dozen a day all over the industry. > Each of them has their own little set of unwarranted complexities, bizarre features, and little bugs waiting to explode in the face of their users. > Rationalizing some of them to a common base like CBOR will be a major win. That, and some of the IETF LC discussion reminds me of BEEP. [1] While CBOR also seems sensible, maybe being sensible isn't sufficient for stuff like this. So some kind of statement that CBOR is one point in a design space (as opposed to an optimal solution for some set of design objectives) would be worthwhile. (Or even to make it EXP and not PS, but to be honest I don't care much about that distinction here.) S. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3080