It was intentionally written to be very simple and achieved that goal. If your opinion is that that’s a poor choice, sure. But that’s an opinion, not a fact. S

It was intentionally written to be very simple and achieved that goal. If your opinion is that that’s a poor choice, sure. But that’s an opinion, not a fact. Specifying a specific float format would cripple an interchange format and I think that would be a mistake. The intention here is to allow each origin and destination to decide how to fit the generic data into their representation formats. The spec is not ambiguous. And a spec is a spec is a spec. You can implement it or not. But you can’t just decide “Enh… they didn’t mean it like that so it’s wrong to satisfy the spec. You should really satisfy it wrongly.”