Re: [Json] Counterproposal #2 on work items

[Philipp Kewisch <[e-mail]>]

I second Francis' opinion. While it might be more common to have an 
object as a root, this is by no means a best common practice without 
explaination. I'd be ok with hilighting that there is greater 
flexibility in adding new key-value type data when using an object as 
the root, but there is more than one protocol type where an array as 
root makes more sense. Specifically, any protocol that uses sequential 
data or where potential keys can have duplicate names should probably 
have an array as a root. We went through just this question when 
designing draft-kewisch-et-al-icalendar-in-json. While iCalendar may 
seem like key-value type data, these keys can show up more than once so 
using an object as the root is the wrong thing to do.

I know the question is first if its useful to work on a such problem, 
but since I might not be around to mention this when a BCP is being 
created I still wanted to mention it.

Philipp