Re: [Json] Possible next work for the WG

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Wed, 16 October 2013 17:41 UTC

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:41:04 -0400
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
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Hi Barry,

--On October 16, 2013 at 1:21:27 PM -0400 Barry Leiba 
<barryleiba@computer.org> wrote:

>> - Best practices document for JSON implementers and folks who
>> use JSON in protocols
>
> As I've mentioned, I'd like to do a document about guidelines for
> defining JSON objects in other documents/protocols, to make sure that
> we use JSON primitives for those definitions, and don't try to
> duplicate JSON grammar in ABNF.  See Section 6.2 of
> draft-ietf-repute-media-type-13 (currently in the RFC Editor queue)
> for an example, and look at Section 6.1.1 of version -12 of that
> document for the ABNF version of how I think it should NOT be done.

Yes! And also please look at 
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-daboo-aggregated-service-discovery-03#section-5> 
which makes use of 
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-newton-json-content-rules-01> as another 
way to describe the "format" of a JSON document.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo