Re: [Json] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-json-text-sequence-10

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Fri, 12 December 2014 03:22 UTC

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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:22:40 -0600
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
Subject: Re: [Json] Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-json-text-sequence-10
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 08:41:40PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Nico Williams scripsit:
> 
> > RS cannot accidentally result from truncating a multi-byte UTF-8
> > encoded codepoint.
> 
> I realize that.  But because such truncations are possible, we can't
> assert that a well-formed JSON text sequence is necessarily well-formed
> UTF-8 as a whole.

Oh, I see what you're saying, you're objecting to the sentence that
David wanted added to section 2, before 2.1.

We could prefix "Well-formed " to that sentence and make this concern go
away :)