Re: [Json] The text in draft-ietf-json-text-sequence

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Tue, 15 July 2014 06:32 UTC

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 01:32:36 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: "\"Martin J. Dürst\"" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
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Subject: Re: [Json] The text in draft-ietf-json-text-sequence
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:09:31AM +0900, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
> On 2014/07/08 05:57, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> >- Do you feel that the protocol will be significantly broken if it uses LF as the text separator?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >- Do you feel that the protocol will be significantly broken if it uses RS as the text separator?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >- Do you feel that using LF or RF as the text separator is essentially the same for the protocol?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> [...]
> 
> [The above are just a reflection of the fact that I think that this
> format (it's not really a protocol) is unnecessary and therefore
> broken from the start, and therefore it's broken with whatever
> separator there is (except with ',', i.e. simply as a JSON array).
> The problem of diverging opinions is best solved by abandoning this
> spec.]

Do you feel that the IESG ought to request that the RFC-Editor do not
publish if we pursue Informational RFC publication?  Please explain in
detail how this protocol is harmful the Internet.

Nico
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