Re: [Json] Scope: Wire format or runtime format?

"Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com> Sat, 15 June 2013 20:35 UTC

From: "Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr)" <jhildebr@cisco.com>
To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Thread-Topic: [Json] Scope: Wire format or runtime format?
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Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:35:32 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Json] Scope: Wire format or runtime format?
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On 6/15/13 10:06 AM, "John Cowan" <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

>Tim Bray scripsit:
>
>> I think the IETF, at least at the Apps area, is in the business of
>>network
>> protocols, so I see our job here primarily as getting the wire-format
>> aspects right.
>
>+1, but that still has at least two aspects, the character-level syntax
>and the mapping to an entity body.

Is that only because of the multiple encodings?  For example, if JSON was
UTF8-only, could we define a purely concrete syntax of octet sequences?

-- 
Joe Hildebrand

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