Re: [Json] Proposed change to the title of the spec

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Wed, 05 June 2013 18:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposed change to the title of the spec
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com>wrote:

> On 6/5/2013 9:53 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
>
>> I’m +0 on this but think it would be just wonderful to take JavaScript
>> out of the name. New title: “The JSON Format for Encoding Data”. Who said
>> JSON had to stand for anything? -T
>>
>>  I like this. There is no need to put JavaScript in the title. I think
> the title should be
> The JSON Data Interchange Format.
>