The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'On storing CBOR encoded items on stable storage'
  (draft-ietf-cbor-file-magic-12.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Concise Binary Object Representation
Maintenance and Extensions Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Murray Kucherawy and Francesca Palombini.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cbor-file-magic/




Technical Summary

This document defines an on-disk format for CBOR data items that is friendly to 
common on-disk recognition systems such as the Unix file(1) command. It 
describes methods for the different cases of tagging CBOR objects, CBOR streams 
and for data transported in CoAP messages.

Working Group Summary

The process through the WG was unremarkable, with small controversies at 
bikeshedding level sorted out during interims.

Document Quality

Based on this document, OpenSWAN has allocated CBOR tags and is using them; 
updates to the file magic database are being prepared.
The document was authored and reviewed by the designated experts for CBOR tag 
allocations.

Personnel

Christian Amsüss is Document Shepherd, Francesca Palombini is Responsible Area 
Director.

IANA Note

Additionally to registering a new item, this document updates an existing 
registration to the CBOR Tags registry: 
https://www.iana.org/assignments/cbor-tags/cbor-tags.xhtml, and request to 
allocate a range of numbers on this same registry.


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