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Re: [Json] Counterproposal on work items

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 20 February 2013 22:31 UTC

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On 21/02/2013, at 6:02 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

> On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:43 AM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:
>>> On Feb 20, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>>>> My proposal is: do nothing.
>>> 
>>> -1.
>>> 
>>> There are places where RFC 4627 has SHOULDs where some processors do one thing and others do something different. That should be cleaned up in a standards-track RFC, and it should be done with lots of JSON developers and users having a discussion that comes to rough consensus.
>> 
>> One I-D as simple as this hardly justifies a WG.
> 
> Getting broad consensus on changing a standard that is implemented widely outside the IETF justifies the effort to have the time and space for consensus. This is *not* just IETF work.


I don't know. I think I'd be fine if we just asked Crockford (perhaps helped by a willing editor) to do 4627bis and then have the AD sponsor it on Standards Track.

Cheers,

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