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Re: [Json] Minimal edit proposal, second round

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Thu, 27 June 2013 00:30 UTC

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Paul Hoffman scripsit:

> We currently have an ambiguous document *that everyone has used for
> six years* as the de facto standard. No one noticed this ambiguity
> (at least in public) until *after* we started this WG.

What do you call "public"?  Mr. Crockford and I were discussing this
for the second time more than two years ago on the JSON Yahoo list:
see <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/json/message/1600> et seqq.

> We don't have to dissolve in order to recharter. In fact, we are better
> off if we don't.

Ah, good.

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[W]hen I wrote it I was more than a little              John Cowan
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