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Re: [jose] Canonical JSON form

Neil Madden <neil.madden@forgerock.com> Thu, 11 October 2018 05:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [jose] Canonical JSON form
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> On 11 Oct 2018, at 01:02, Bret Jordan <jordan.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Other implementations say that you should preserver the order of the fields you read when serialized which is part of JSON for the browser implementations but not necessarily elsewhere.
> 
> Preserving order is hard.  Depending on your programming language you might be deserializing the content in to a struct or you may be using a map. 
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> What I need is a way for individuals and organizations to be able to pass around and share JSON data and collaboratively work on that JSON data and sign the parts that they have done. 

Have you considered Git with PGP-signed commits? It solves this use-case extremely well.

— Neil

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