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

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk@cloudmark.com> Tue, 20 March 2012 21:40 UTC

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Julian Reschke
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:13 PM
> To: Paul C. Bryan
> Cc: apps-discuss@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] feedback on draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch-01.txt
> 
> > It wasn't my intent originally, though your concerns have me think
> > that perhaps we should consider it. It was to define a fragment
> > identifier syntax, which other specifications (e.g. JSON Schema, JSON
> > Reference) can reference.
> >
> >> If it is, we need to normatively update the JSON RFC, and need to
> >> make sure there's really consensus on this.
> >
> > Question: Do you think it should?
> 
> I'm not sure.

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

It seems to me that you can just say that this is a way to do pointers to objects, and that patch is built on top of it, and stop there.

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