Re: [jose] Canonical JSON form

Awesome advise.  Thanks.

Thanks,
Bret
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> On Oct 10, 2018, at 7:47 PM, Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Bret,
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> You could define it within a draft in a different working group other than JOSE and ask for reviewers from JOSE to review and comment to catch problems.  Although already described above, there are issues with this and JSON, which is why the WG didn't want to do canonicalization.
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> I'm assuming you want to do basically what was done for RID in XML using JSON.  You may want to look at the set of possibilities to replicate as they are all likely needed with what you are trying to do or just as part of your gap analysis.
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> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6545#section-9.1 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6545#section-9.1>
> Also look at 9.3.1 and 9.3.2 as you're likely to also need multi-hop authentication too.
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> To David's point in the message that follows this (came in while typing), RID signed portions of the message to enable interoperability and you are likely to need to do very similar things that are described in RID related to the policy work I had previously mentioned for your gap analysis as being similar functionality.  If you haven't looked at that part of the document, I think it will be helpful.
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> Best regards,
> Kathleen
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> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 8:29 PM Manger, James <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com <mailto:James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>> wrote:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rundgren-json-canonicalization-scheme <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rundgren-json-canonicalization-scheme>
> is a decent attempt at JSON canonicalization (and an appendix lists a few other attempts).
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> This one sorts object members based on their UTF-16 encoding (without escapes), and assumes double precision floats is the model for numbers.
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> From: jose [mailto:jose-bounces@ietf.org <mailto:jose-bounces@ietf.org>] On Behalf Of Bret Jordan
> Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2018 11:02 AM
> To: Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com <mailto:ietf@augustcellars.com>>
> Cc: Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@redhat.com <mailto:npmccallum@redhat.com>>; jose@ietf.org <mailto:jose@ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: [jose] Canonical JSON form
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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.
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> 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. 
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> Bret
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