Re: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-core-links-json-07

[Adam Roach <[e-mail]>]

On 4/25/17 17:19, Elwyn Davies wrote:
> >From JSON to RFC 6690: 
> - Remove the double quotes from the JSON string value and do any
> necessary decoding and encoding.  Reapply double quotes.  Note that
> this may result in values that were originally not enclosed in double
> quotes in the RFC 6690 repreentation becoming enclosed in double
> quotes. However, [AFAICS] this does not alter the semantics of any of
> the predefined parameters.  For example the ABNF productions mean that
> ct=40 and ct="40" are equivalent (the second case is needed so that
> one can also have ct="40 41 42").  What IS needed is a statement that
> this must also apply to any application specific parameters.  For
> example the case in examples 4 and 5 of ..;foo="bar";foo=3;...
> transforming to "foo":["bar","3"] and then back to
> ...;foo="bar";foo="3";.. MUST require that the two RFC 6690
> representations are equivalent.


This has the reciprocal problem that using quotes with (e.g.) sz and 
hreflang is a violation of the ABNF in RFC6690.

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