[Json] [Errata Rejected] RFC8259 (5218)

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The following errata report has been rejected for RFC8259,
"The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format"

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You may review the report below and at:
https://errata.rfc-editor.org/eid5218/

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Status: Rejected
Type: Technical
Reported by: Vasiliy Faronov <vfaronov@gmail.com>
Date Reported: Dec. 28, 2017, 8 p.m.
Rejected by: Andy Newton (IESG)

Section 12 says:

Original Text
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JSON is a subset of JavaScript

Corrected Text
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JSON is nearly a subset of JavaScript

Notes
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JSON is not a subset of JavaScript: there are syntactically valid JSON texts that are not syntactically valid JavaScript. Namely, JSON strings can contain unescaped U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR or U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR characters, while JavaScript string literals cannot. Thus, a sequence of characters U+0022 U+2028 U+0022 matches this RFC's 'string' production, but does not match ECMA-262's 'Expression' production.

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RFC8259 (draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis)
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Title               : The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format
Publication Date    : December 2017
Author(s)           : T. Bray, Ed.
Category            : Internet Standard
Source              : jsonbis (art)
Stream              : IETF