Re: [Json] Proposed rechartering for the JSON WG

[Andrew Newton <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]> wrote:
> The important thing**) here is the 80-20 rule -- we don't need to make this thing powerful or perfect, because we can always fall back to English.
> But we shouldn't always have to, even for the most basic purposes.
>
> (draft-newton looks like an 85 % solution to me; maybe this can be even simpler.)

The intent of the draft was to find a way to document JSON. It
probably got too formal and could use some thoughtful reduction plus
use of english words instead of symbols to ease readability.

As for the backlash against schema languages, there are some lessons
to be learned. After all, DTDs and XSDs do not a standard make. The
sweet spot is probably not just a common notation or language to
describe the use of JSON in a standard but also some guidelines
regarding the other information necessary for a good specification.

-andy