The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data format specified by RFC 8949.
CBOR was originally specified in RFC 7049: Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR). That RFC has since been obsoleted by RFC 8949: Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR), which describes CBOR thus:
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.