Re: [cti-stix] Typo in range of integers

[John-Mark Gurney <jmg@newcontext.com>]

Trey Darley wrote this message on Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 13:36 +0000:
> On 09.06.2017 12:57:52, Wunder, John A. wrote:
> > I think it may be the result of a misunderstanding, it came as a
> > result of this comment from the TAB:
> > https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/TAB-1501. If you look at the
> > JSON spec it calls out that range as the set that allows you to
> > precisely represent the integer, but I think when we got that
> > comment we didn't explicitly make that decision…we just saw that
> > comment with the value, saw it in the JSON spec, and copied it in.
> > 
> > IMO we could just change that to be 63 and it would be fine, unless
> > people feel like it’s important to constrain the range further to
> > avoid being able to represent imprecise integers.
> 
> JMG, thanks for catching this!

Thank JCS (JSON Cleartext Signature) author Anders Rundgren for pointing
this out to me when we were discussing digital signatures and me being
a bit puzzled by it.

> I agree with John that we should go ahead and fix the typo before we
> open the CS ballot.

Thanks.

-- 
John-Mark