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The IETF I-D documents for the qlog format
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Explain 64-bit I-JSON issues but don't embed that in CDDL #388

Closed LPardue closed 7 months ago

LPardue commented 7 months ago

Alternative to #359.

I-JSON can mess with big numbers and we can't constrain the range. We don't want to mandate bigint support on anyone. We don't want to make non-JSON serializers/parsers have to worry about stringified numbers - so modifying the CDDL directly seems off.

There's lots of ways that implementations can internally handle values, we don't care much about that here. For interop, settle on allow JSON parsers to write uint64 as strings if they want to. Make it clear that parsers should expect that, unless they have some non-standard way of knowing.

Fixes #229

LPardue commented 7 months ago

those suggestions make it better, thanks