[Json] [IANA #1147224] Request for Assignment (websocket)

["Amanda Baber via RT" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Julian, all,

We received a suggestion from the ADs that we specifically ask about the utility of websocket subprotocol IDs for JSON (and CBOR, the subject of the other request we received). Are there issues there? 

thanks,

Amanda Baber
Lead IANA Services Specialist

On Tue Sep 17 05:02:33 2019, [e-mail] wrote:
> On 17.09.2019 06:50, Amanda Baber wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > IANA has received a request to register "json" in the WebSocket
> > Subprotocol Name registry at
> >
> > https://www.iana.org/assignments/websocket/websocket.xml#subprotocol-
> > name
> >
> > Barry Leiba and Alexey Melnikov suggested asking this mailing list
> > for opinions on this request.
> >
> > This is all of the information that was provided:
> >
> > ===
> >
> > Type of Assignment:
> > WebSocket Subprotocol ID: `json`, Common Name: `JavaScript Object
> > Notation`
> >
> > Description:
> > A lightweight messaging protocol for structured data using simple
> > data types. Defined in http://www.ecma-
> > international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-404.pdf
> >
> > ===
> >
> > We currently have only the requester's name as an entry for the
> > registry's "Reference" field.
> >
> > We're also asking the CBOR mailing list to comment on a request to
> > register "cbor."
> 
> That looks insufficient to me. The definition of a payload format
> isn't
> a protocol definition, as required by
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455#section-11.5>:
> 
> > Subprotocol Definition
> >    A reference to the document in which the subprotocol being used
> >    with the WebSocket Protocol is defined.
> 
> Best regards, Julian