[Json-canon] Proposed Charter

[Bret Jordan <[e-mail]>]

All,

Here is a proposed charter for this WG.  Please send any comments on this charter to this email list. 



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JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a text format for the serialization of structured data described in RFC 8259. The JSON format is often used for serializing and transmitting structured data over a network connection. With the increased usage of JSON in protocols in the IETF and elsewhere, there is now a need to define a canonical representation of JSON objects to enable comparison operations and security services on plain text JSON. 

Different proposals for providing such security services have already been defined and implemented. The goal of the Working Group is to define and standardize a mechanism for creating a canonical representation of plain text JSON objects.

This group is chartered to work on the following deliverable:

- A Standards Track document specifying a canonical representation of JSON data.

In order to promote interoperability and ease of implementation, the current proposal builds on I-JSON (RFC 7493), the serialization methods for JSON primitives defined by EcmaScript version 6, and a platform-independent method for sorting object properties.  By doing that, JSON parsers will not need modifications, enabling the described mechanism to ultimately be reduced to an option in JSON serializers.

The proposed work-item is tentatively named JSON Canonicalization Scheme (JCS)

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Thanks,
Bret
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