OETF #11 - OC Network Packet Serialisation

[skyem123 4]

It's very hard to convert Markdown into what this forum uses, so the specification and example implementation is in a gist:
https://gist.github.com/skyem123/f5aa955699da26a5b8b9a6390552232a

I may change the wording or fix bugs, but the actual specification will not / should not change.

[Magik6k 17]

Why MsgPack instead of CBOR(RFC 7049)?

[skyem123 4]

I chose MessagePack because I didn't think about or see the other thing.
Maybe another thing would be "better", but there's a point where you just have to pick something, and theoretically you could use a similar method on other ways to encode / store tables. For example, this could be done with the OpenOS table serialise function for extra inefficiency, however this specific standard uses MessagePack.

[BrisingrAerowing 12]

Somewhat on topic, there is a pure lua implementation of CBOR here.

[skyem123 4]

Well someone else can make a standard using CBOR. I won't steal their thunder, though I recommend to whoever does it, use a structure similar to this. ^^;