Re: [Json] Minimal edit proposal, second round

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Wed, 26 June 2013 18:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Minimal edit proposal, second round
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Tim Bray scripsit:

> Yeah, but our charter clearly doesn’t let us fix JSON.  What we need is to
> do something like this, then re-charter to produce a doc that provides real
> guidance, so that, as someone in this thread pointed out, other Working
> Groups will have something to point to and won’t, as is currently happening
> in Jose, have to write explicit language forbidding dupes, etc, into their
> drafts.  So I’m in favor of doing this minimal point-out-the-problems work
> and moving on. -T

If we do that, we will have an ambiguous document on the standards track.
The problem with implementation guidance is that it isn't normative:
nobody can insist on compliance with it.  If there's really no choice
except to dissolve and recharter, or to pass this farce, +1 for dissolution.

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