Volker Mische

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This is a super broad meta issue. Though I couldn't find anything about that in the issue tracker, hence I open this one. The topic "context" is something that comes...

Do we have a FAQ-like/best practices document? I'd like to see the question: "How do I represent IEEE-754 non-finite numbers like `Nan` or `Infinity` in IPLD? I guess the answer...

The [Schema Authoring Guide](https://github.com/ipld/specs/blob/34d7c29eb0049da18b1d5cc5a30c743d114e9da6/schemas/authoring-guide.md#schema-kinds) talks about "component specifier", but never defines what that is. I don't know what that is and [@mvdan neither](https://github.com/ipld/specs/blob/34d7c29eb0049da18b1d5cc5a30c743d114e9da6/design/history/exploration-reports/2020.09-learning-ipld.md#concepts-that-confused-me). Hence I open this issue.

One of the ideas of IPLD is that it defines a Data Model that is independent of the underlying codec. You can leverage existing formats like CBOR, JSON or Protocol...

It's important for content-addressing to have the same endianness for We should either have a generic rule or have every codec should have a section about endianness. I propose that...

Can we please change from CC-BY-SA to CC-BY License? This was one of the first things I did on IPFS stuff when I joined, but I must somehow forgot to...

When I click on a link on the front page and go e.g. to https://specs.ipld.io/block-layer/multihash.html, I can only click on "IPLD Specifications" at the top left, but there's nothing else...

Going to the front page of https://specs.ipld.io/ I can barely read the diagram, it should be possible to click on it to enlarge it.

A discussion on Rust IPLD about naming things spawned this issue. I open this issue on the IPLD repository and not on the Multicodec one as I first want to...

In the DagCBOR spec, be more precise on what happens if you parse CBOR and it contains tags. - Should they be ignored? - Should they be preserved? - Should...