Re: [Json] Call for Consensus: Proposed Text for "8.1 Character Encoding"

"HANSEN, TONY L" <tony@att.com> Mon, 17 April 2017 19:09 UTC

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From: "HANSEN, TONY L" <tony@att.com>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, "Matthew A. Miller" <linuxwolf+ietf@outer-planes.net>
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Subject: Re: [Json] Call for Consensus: Proposed Text for "8.1 Character Encoding"
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On 4/17/17, 1:56 PM, "json on behalf of Nico Williams" <json-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:

    On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:41:29AM -0600, Matthew A. Miller wrote:
    > [ /me doffs hat ]
    > 
    > Thinking about this more, putting an encoding detection algorithm as an
    > appendix seems like a reasonable compromise to me.  To start, how about
    > removing the detection text from Section 8.1 and have an appendix that
    > starts with that text plus the table?
    
    Or we could even just assert that such an algorithm is possible, and
    that implementors MAY implement one.
    
    > Assuming the above, what does everyone think of the following for
    > Section 8.1?
    
    +1.


I’ve argued before for having the encoding detection algorithm put into an appendix. If it were, I also vote +1 to the rewording.

	Tony Hansen