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Re: [dispatch] PING2. Re: JSON Canonicalization Standard

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Wed, 05 September 2018 23:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dispatch] PING2. Re: JSON Canonicalization Standard
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A canonicalization of a space should apply to all valid values, and
shouldn't map two semantically different values to the same canonical form.

JSON intentionally allows large integers and floating point numbers outside
of IEEE range of capabilities (1e400, 99999999999999999999).
 
While some implementations will coerce values and round off, I think a good
canonicalization should leave these values intact, if you're want a JSON
canonicalization rather than an "ES6 value serialization" canonicalization
(a strict subset).

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