Dale R. Worley <[email protected]> wrote:
    > "Doug Ewell" <[email protected]> writes:
    >>> Since very early in computing, operating systems have sought ways to
    >>> mark which files could be proposed by which programs.
    >>
    >> The word "proposed" feels very awkward here. Maybe "opened" or
    >> "manipulated," or some recasting of the sentence that talks about
    >> files "belonging to" programs, or something similar.

    > When I first read that, I mis-read it as "processed by".  I suspect
    > that is what is intended.

    > But ... Am I missing something?  Isn't a magic number provided by RFC
    > 8949 section 3.4.6?

    >    3.4.6.  Self-Described CBOR

    >    [...]  Tag number 55799 is defined for this purpose, specifically

That tells us that it might be CBOR.

It does not distinguish a CBOR encoded certificate from a CBOR encoded
RFC8366 artifact, for instance.

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
           Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide




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