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Re: [Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Atwood)
Tue Oct 1 12:06:20 2013
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From: Mark Atwood <me@mark.atwood.name>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:04:24 -0700
To: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
Cc: Crypto <cryptography@metzdowd.com>, ianG <iang@iang.org>
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> 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
YAML?
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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