Re: [Json] I-JSON Tpic #2: Top-Level

"Manger, James" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> Wed, 30 April 2014 03:19 UTC

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From: "Manger, James" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, IETF JSON WG <json@ietf.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:19:22 +1000
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> Protocols with messages which are objects are better than other protocols, because they are architecturally friendly to MustIgnore policies.  

Perhaps we should say a MustIgnore policy applies to all objects in I-JSON; instead of merely making a MustIgnore policy possible via a somewhat tangential rule that the top-level must be an object.

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James Manger