RFC 8610 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2019

Concise Data Definition Language : A Notational Convention to Express Concise Binary Object Representation and JSON Data Structures

Overview

RFC 8610, “Concise Data Definition Language : A Notational Convention to Express Concise Binary Object Representation and JSON Data Structures”, is a Proposed Standard document published in June 2019 by H. Birkholz, C. Vigano, C. Bormann. It has since been updated by RFC 9682. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document proposes a notational convention to express Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) data structures (RFC 7049). Its main goal is to provide an easy and unambiguous way to express structures for protocol messages and data formats that use CBOR or JSON.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Proposed Standard” means

An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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RFC 9682
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