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Re: [Gen-art] [Json] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-json-text-sequence-09

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 09 December 2014 04:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Gen-art] [Json] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-json-text-sequence-09
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Patrik Fältström scripsit:

> This implies the whole thing is a UTF-8 encoded text that is to be
> parsed like this:

No, this is a misunderstanding.  There is no requirement that the sequence
*as a whole* is well-formed UTF-8 text.  For example, if the first JSON
text is written only in part for whatever reason (system crash, etc.) to
a log file, the next process can write a 0x1E byte and carry on.

> I.e. the blob, to be compliant with this document, MUST be UTF-8 encoded JSON.

The possible-JSON part is either UTF-8 encoded JSON or it's arbitrary junk.

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