CloudEvents Specification

1. Overview and terminology

   Event, occurrence, producer and consumer concepts.

2. Context attributes

   Attribute naming conventions and the type system.

3. Required attributes

   id, source, specversion and type.

4. Optional attributes

   datacontenttype, dataschema, subject and time.

5. Extension context attributes

   Defining custom extension attributes.

6. Event data

   Payload semantics and encoding.

7. Size limits

   Recommended event and attribute size limits.

8. Privacy and security

   Guidance on sensitive data in events.

9. HTTP protocol binding

   Binary and structured content modes over HTTP.

10. JSON event format

    Serializing CloudEvents as JSON.

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