Re: [Json] Minimal edit proposal, second round

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Wed, 26 June 2013 16:29 UTC

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Markus Lanthaler scripsit:

> I'm wondering what the point is of updating the document if things like
> these are not clarified. Why are we not just reclassifying RFC 4627 from
> Informational to Standard and be done then? Apparently the RFC has been good
> enough to make JSON one of the most widely adopted data formats.

+1 to that, and -1 to the proposal: it does not do enough to be worth doing.

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