[Json] Re: A fork in the road [was: Re: Please comment on draft-ietf-jsonschema-json-schema-01]

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2026-06-27, at 18:22, John Carlson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> As I stated before, are we discussing how to validate many types of schema? JSON schema, XML Schema, YAML schema, RDF schema, etc.  Or are we just validating JSON schema?  That should guide us.  If we just validate JSON schema, then just validating JSON values (minus syntax) should be OK.  

Non sequitur (i.e., that is not the reason, but may be I’m parsing the above wrong), but still true:

> Just validating JSON values (minus syntax) should be OK


(A better reason is that the WG has been chartered that way [1].
"JSON Schema is a JSON language for describing the data structures of other JSON documents.”
Keep in mind:
"The working group may recharter to broaden the group's scope of work only after completing the working group's initial milestone.”
Other groups [e.g., one's local YAML fanclub] can of course do work outside that scope.)

So we agree on this and can stop discussing it?
(Don’t answer if the answer is yes.)

Grüße, Carsten


[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/jsonschema/about/

You have to assume semantic equivalence of “just validating JSON values (minus syntax)” (in the cited mail) and "describing the data structures of other JSON documents” (in the charter) to agree with the way I personally arrived at this conclusion, but that is not necessary to simply agree with the conclusion.