Comment by aidenn0
4 days ago
> ...awkwardly, streaming is a protocol level feature, not a data format level feature.
Indeed. I recall that tnetstrings were intentionally made non-streamable to discourage people from trying to do so: "If you need to send 1000 DVDs, don't try to encode them in 1 tnetstring payload, instead send them as a sequence of tnetstrings as payload chunks with checks and headers like most other protocols"
> Warning: I have a big rant about the tag registry. > ...
I completely agree with your rant w.r.t. automated decoding. However, a global tag registry can still potentially be useful in that, given CBOR encoded data with a tag that my decoder doesn't support, it may be easier for a human to infer the intended meaning. Some types may be very obvious, others less so.
e.g. Standardized MIME types are useful even if no application supports every one of them.
> However, a global tag registry can still potentially be useful in that, given CBOR encoded data with a tag that my decoder doesn't support, it may be easier for a human to infer the intended meaning.
Yeah if MP is conservative and CBOR is progressive, I'm slightly less conservative than MP: I'd support UUIDs and bignums. But again, they'd have to be very optional, like in the "we're only reserving these tags, not in any way mandating support" sense.