Re: [Json] Possible next work for the WG

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Wed, 16 October 2013 17:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Possible next work for the WG
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+1 to Barry. This would be super-useful, independent of whether we do
I-JSON or not.


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>wrote:

> > Greetings again. While our AD ponders the 4627bis document
> > (probably on its way to IETF Last Call), the Working Group can
> > start to think about what it wants to do next, if anything. The
> > chairs have heard of at least four topics that the WG might or
> > might not want to add to its charter:
> ...
> > - Best practices document for JSON implementers and folks who
> > use JSON in protocols
>
> As I've mentioned, I'd like to do a document about guidelines for
> defining JSON objects in other documents/protocols, to make sure that
> we use JSON primitives for those definitions, and don't try to
> duplicate JSON grammar in ABNF.  See Section 6.2 of
> draft-ietf-repute-media-type-13 (currently in the RFC Editor queue)
> for an example, and look at Section 6.1.1 of version -12 of that
> document for the ABNF version of how I think it should NOT be done.
>
> Such a document could be on its own, or it could be part of the best
> practices document Paul mentioned.
>
> Barry
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