Re: [Json] I-D Action: draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-01.txt

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Sun, 12 June 2016 19:28 UTC

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Huh, I observe that 262 has been updated and now has a reference to 404.
Which means that the assertion in 7159 that 262 also defines JSON is now
incorrect.  So I guess I should put back the two-specs language and remove
the assertion about 262.


On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

> Tim Bray wrote:
> > ECMA 262
>
> I think that's a regression.
>
> ECMA 262 is *not* defining JSON.
>
> (If you are looking for more sources of definitions, can I offer the
> documentation of, say, NSJSONSerialization?)
>
> Of course we'd like JSON implementations to implement JSON, but the
> direction of the arrow of normative referencing is very clear here.
>
> Grüße, Carsten
>



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