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Re: [apps-discuss] feedback on draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch-01.txt

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Wed, 21 March 2012 06:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] feedback on draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch-01.txt
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On 2012/03/21 6:40, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:

> Does there need to be one-and-only-one?

In theory, not necessarily. In practice, not having a lot of variation 
usually helps.

> Or I guess more accurately, do we need to say this is the one and only way to do this?  Seems like that closes the door to someone coming up with a better idea.

Fragment pointers into datastructures such as JSON isn't exactly a brand 
new field with lots of new possibilities. And XPointer has shown that 
making it too complicated cuts out most implementations. My proposal 
would be to somehow include an extensibility hatch, but then say this is 
the one and only one.

Regards,    Martin.

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