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

Patrik Fältström <paf@frobbit.se> Tue, 09 December 2014 07:32 UTC

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> On 9 dec 2014, at 05:20, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Ok, fair.

Then I think the draft itself should state this in one way or another. If nothing else the text you wrote here or a version of it is to go into the security considerations section.

   Patrik

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