This was a rather productive IETF Last Call! Thank you all for the many comments. Paul and I have taken your comments and believe that we have incorporated the ones that we said we would. The -05 has just been published: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bormann-cbor-05 ... and there are lots of diffs; see http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-bormann-cbor-05 We would particularly like review of the changes we made in section 3, where we tightened up a lot of the "might" language for parsers. We also clarified that what we were too-loosely calling a "parser" was actually a "decoder" that has two sub-parts: a parser (grammar only) and semantic processor (checking for validity). We hope that this major edit alleviates most concerns, but further comments are certainly appreciated. Grüße, Carsten