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Re: [Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Arcieri)
Tue Oct 1 10:35:27 2013
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From: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:48:06 -0700
To: Mark Atwood <me@mark.atwood.name>
Cc: Crypto <cryptography@metzdowd.com>, ianG <iang@iang.org>
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Mark Atwood <me@mark.atwood.name> wrote:
> Well, there are Protobufs, and there is Thrift, and there is
> MessagePack, and there is Avro...
Here's a crazy idea: instead of using one of these formats, use a human
readable format that can be described by a formal grammar which is
hopefully regular, context-free, or context-sensitive in a limited manner
--
Tony Arcieri
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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Mark Atwood <span dir=3D"=
ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:me@mark.atwood.name" target=3D"_blank">me@mark.a=
twood.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=
=3D"gmail_quote">
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im"><span style=3D"color:rgb(3=
4,34,34)">Well, there are Protobufs, and there is Thrift, and there is</spa=
n><br>
</div>
MessagePack, and there is Avro...</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Here'=
s a crazy idea: instead of using one of these formats, use a human readable=
format that can be described by a formal grammar which is hopefully regula=
r, context-free, or context-sensitive in a limited manner</div>
<div>=A0</div></div>-- <br>Tony Arcieri<br>
</div></div>
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