Re: [Json] What are we trying to do?

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 03 July 2013 15:37 UTC

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<no hats>

+1 to everything Tim said, particularly "charter is self-contradictory". We didn't realize this when we put together the charter (a process in which dozens of people participated), but we do now.

--Paul Hoffman