Re: If not JSON, what then ?

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 03 August 2016 13:17 UTC

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> On 3 Aug 2016, at 3:07 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
>> I said this privately to someone at the workshop, but my realization
>> was that we currently have schema-aware parsing with extremely limited
>> points of extension.  A revised system that supports that doesn't need
>> to be very complex.  Even a single level map of string key to
>> (optional) string value is more extensibility than we can sensibly
>> defend.
> 
> As with HPACK/huffman, I don't see the need to heurstically restict
> the data model, I would rather precisely restrict its use for
> individual headers.

Keep in mind that we're not going to require new headers to use this thing; if their needs aren't met, they can do something else.

Looking at recently minted headers, I'm still sharing Martin's inclination to keep it simple and flat.


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