Re: CBOR media types

We'll likely want to specify mimetypes for the protocol so this is good to
know. One nice side effect of including +cbor is that it gives us a
mechanism for using a different encoding down the line.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 6:26 AM Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:

> I guess most people are familiar with suffixed Internet Media types, like
> image/svg+xml or application/ld+json*. *I see that people are now using
> +cbor as well. See for example application/yang-data+cbor
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-core-yang-cbor-15#section-9.1
>
> I don't know if that affects our protocol design, but it is good to know
> that if we need to use an Internet Media type, we have that suffix as an
> option.
>
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> Chris Lilley
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> W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media
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