The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation. These design goals make it different from earlier binary serializations such as ASN.1 and MessagePack. This document obsoletes RFC 7049, providing editorial improvements, new details, and errata fixes while keeping full compatibility with the interchange format of RFC 7049. It does not create a new version of the format.
It feels like he needed to put something in the author field and panicked and just added man to it. Better go check JSON wasn’t created by John Sonmann or something.
I’m trying to think of some program I could create using my name in a similar way that would make sense as an acronym.
JSON was obviously created by someone called Jason