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

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 21 May 2014 22:01 UTC

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Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 17:01:25 -0500
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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Subject: Re: [Json] I-JSON Tpic #2: Top-Level
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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)
<jhildebr@cisco.com> wrote:
> On 5/21/14, 12:43 PM, "Nico Williams" <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm not sure that I care much about this though.  The choice to be
>>interoperable with such implementations is arbitrary.  If the WG wants
>>that, then restricting the top-level in I-JSON is the right thing to
>>do.  Paul asserts that that is what the WG wanted, but Matt's reading
>>of the consensus on this issue implies the opposite.  We're not done
>>establishing consensus though.  It might help to cast the interop
>>issue in starker terms: interop with RFC4627 implementations with no
>>option to parse all types at the top-level.
>
> That's what I want.

I have no position on that issue.  IF that was not a WG goal, then I'd
much prefer to not impose any top-level type restrictions.  My
position is therefore neutral on this.