Re: CBOR and a tag for "critical"

2013-08-15 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I am quite sure that I fully understand the semantics of "critical" > (probably erroneously), so I'm not the right person to clarify the various > meanings of the word. I would appreciate a proposal. > > Just for the record, my "

Re: CBOR and a tag for "critical"

2013-08-15 Thread Yaron Sheffer
In fact I answered your question precisely when I mentioned "contained" data items (i.e., contained in the critical one). So I may be wrong but at least I'm consistent... I think the concept of criticality is powerful, even if in the past we messed it up. Thanks, Yaron On 2013-08-15

Re: CBOR and a tag for "critical"

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Aug 15, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: > I am quite sure that I fully understand the semantics of "critical" (probably > erroneously), so I'm not the right person to clarify the various meanings of > the word. I would appreciate a proposal. > > Just for the record, my "critical" mea

Re: CBOR and a tag for "critical"

2013-08-15 Thread Yaron Sheffer
Hi Paul, I am quite sure that I fully understand the semantics of "critical" (probably erroneously), so I'm not the right person to clarify the various meanings of the word. I would appreciate a proposal. Just for the record, my "critical" means: the reader must be able to process the data i

CBOR and a tag for "critical"

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Aug 15, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: >>> - One tag value you may want to consider adding is "critical" in the >>> security sense of the word, i.e., an application is required to fail if >>> it does not understand the value (probably best applied to map keys). >> >> That's also an i