[Cryptography] encoding formats should not be committee'ized

Tony Arcieri bascule at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 20:48:06 EDT 2013


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Mark Atwood <me at 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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