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RFC 8610: Concise Data Definition Language (CDDL): A Notational Convention to Express Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) and JSON Data Structures

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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.

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Document ID
RFC8610
Published
June 2019
Authors
H. Birkholz; C. Vigano; C. Bormann
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
art
Pages
64
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Updated by:
RFC 9682

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