Re: [Json] JSON & ECMA

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Fri, 15 March 2013 20:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] JSON & ECMA
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It should live somewhere with good googlejuice that has moderately sane
editorial processes and where the likelihood that someone will grab the
steering wheel and do something stupid is acceptably low.  IETF is
plausible on that metric.

In my personal experience (which may be unusual), ISO and (to a greater
degree) ECMA combine corruption and ineptitude on an epic scale, so that
association would be a negative. Others may differ. -T


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Douglas Crockford
<douglas@crockford.com>wrote:

> The JSON Standard was inspired by ECMA's ECMAScript Standard, Third
> Edition, but is not dependent on it. ECMAScript Fifth Edition does not
> define JSON, but implements the JSON standard in ECMAScript. Changes in the
> ECMAScript Standard have no impact on JSON. JSON is language independent.
>
> There is a question about where the JSON Standard should live. One theory
> is that it should be at IETF, because there is an informational RFC that
> associated JSON with the MIME type application/json. The other theory is
> that the standard should live at ECMA because JSON was initially derived
> from ECMAScript, and because ECMA is related to ISO.
>
> I do not know how this should be decided.
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