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Re: [jose] Canonical JSON form

Bret Jordan <jordan.ietf@gmail.com> Thu, 11 October 2018 14:34 UTC

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Neil,

That is interesting.  But as others have said, I need to be able to round trip the content.  The JSON data needs to be consumed by solutions, acted on, added to, and resigned.

Thanks,
Bret
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> On Oct 10, 2018, at 11:33 PM, Neil Madden <neil.madden@forgerock.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 11 Oct 2018, at 01:02, Bret Jordan <jordan.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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. 
>> 
>> 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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