Can we please make fun of this "specification" very very loudly as a warning to people who might think this is even a remotely good idea?

Decimal floating point is actually a good, underutilized idea. However, there is a VERY good specification here: http://speleotrove.com/decimal/dbspec.html

It is written by people who understand the problem, and have thought quite deeply about the solutions.

As opposed to this pile of garbage ...