Re: [Json] What are we trying to do?

[Tim Bray <[e-mail]>]

+1 to Nico’s suggestion.  -T


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Nico Williams <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
> > <no hats>
> >
> > +1 to everything Tim said, particularly "charter is self-contradictory".
> We didn't realize this when we put together the charter (a process in which
> dozens of people participated), but we do now.
>
> Re-reading the charter I'm not sure that there's a contradiction.  We
> can do something:
>
>  - remove the safe-for-eval regexp silliness
>
>  - add a section describing divergent interpretations
>
>  - leave the rest mostly as-is with only those changes for which we
> can get consensus
>
>    E.g., we can probably get consensus for "generators SHOULD NOT
> output duplicate names" and "parsers SHOULD use the last of any
> duplicate names" with appropriate text describing when and why one
> might deviate from this guidance.
>
>    E.g., we can probably get consensus for describing a subset of JSON
> strings that is guaranteed to interoperate, even though we can't ban
> unpaired surrogates.
>
> Then re-charter and publish a BCP.
>
> Alternatively, we could re-charter now.  I can propose text as soon as
> we decide to start that discussion.
>
> Nico
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>