[core] Comments on draft-bormann-core-links-json-01

Zach Shelby <zach@sensinode.com> Mon, 30 July 2012 05:15 UTC

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Carsten,

I reviewed this draft, and definitely find it useful. In addition to some detailed comments (will send directly to Carsten), I think there is one meta-issue here. Do we want this JSON format to be a generic representation of RFC5988 Web Links, or is this something really only specific to the CoRE Link Format use of Web Linking? I think deciding on that scope would help close some of the open questions in the draft. Personally I find the later purpose really nice, but looking at the bigger picture this should probably be as generic as possible.

Definitely think this is something the WG should continue working on. When communicating these CoRE Links from the constrained world to other web applications, JSON provides a handy representation that is easy to work with in high-level programming languages.

Zach

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