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[Json] Counterproposal on work items

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Wed, 20 February 2013 17:27 UTC

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Subject: [Json] Counterproposal on work items
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My proposal is: do nothing.

I use JSON for protocol design and work all the time, and have not observed
any interop problems in the wild which originate at the JSON parson or
construction level.  I give the incoming text to the library and it Just
Works or reliably reports a syntax botch.  I give my data structures to the
JSON serializer and cheerfully send off whatever comes out. I read specs
and build clients and servers and, when things break, it’s because I’m
stupidly using a bogus name or value in some field, not because of the
serialization.

I suggest that there is not a problem here that needs the investment of
precious IETF time.

 -T

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