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Re: [Json] Proposal: the minimal edit

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 24 June 2013 20:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposal: the minimal edit
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On Jun 24, 2013, at 20:53, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> It's standard vs. standard that needs to be
> called out, not standard vs. implementation.

Actually, I'm more interested in interoperability standards reflecting interoperability reality than reflecting other standards.

There is a fine line to walk here, of course.

In particular, "allowing" more and more deviations from a normative reference encourages implementors to turn that normative reference into soup *).  So it is quite understandable that the community behind that normative reference will be outraged each time that happens.

Documenting reality is not enough.  Behavior that creates interoperability problems needs to be discouraged, even if it is widespread.  

Conformity is not enough.  Behavior that creates interoperability problems needs to be discouraged, even if it is condoned by a normative reference.

Grüße, Carsten

*) I'm using that word as a technical term here.
Quick usage example:
HTML was based on SGML, but turned it into soup.

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