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PROPOSED STANDARD

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RFC 8949

Authors:

C. Bormann
P. Hoffman

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IETF

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NON WORKING GROUP

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7049

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Abstract

The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data formatwhose design goals include the possibility of extremely small codesize, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the needfor version negotiation. These design goals make it different fromearlier binary serializations such as ASN.1 and MessagePack.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.