Re: [Json] secdir review of draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-03 [rfc7159bis scope]

"Matthew A. Miller" <linuxwolf+ietf@outer-planes.net> Thu, 16 March 2017 20:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] secdir review of draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-03 [rfc7159bis scope]
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On 17/03/16 11:33, John Cowan wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Matthew A. Miller
> <linuxwolf+ietf@outer-planes.net
> <mailto:linuxwolf+ietf@outer-planes.net>> wrote:
> 
>     While I am generally sympathetic to accommodation, I don't think there
>     is support in the working group for expanding the allowed encodings
>     beyond what RFC 7159 already stated.
> 
> 
> Indeed, I will now go further.  I am now in favor of saying "JSON SHALL
> be encoded in UTF-8", without further qualification.  This is what
> everybody actually does, and why shouldn't we say so?
> 

[ /me doffs hat ]

To keep the change from being too drastic, I think it necessary to leave
in the text forbidding a byte order mark.

For completeness, the complete text for 8.1 would be:

"""
   JSON text SHALL be encoded in UTF-8 [UNICODE] (Section 3).

   Implementations MUST NOT add a byte order mark to the beginning of a
   JSON text.  In the interests of interoperability, implementations
   that parse JSON texts MAY ignore the presence of a byte order mark
   rather than treating it as an error.
"""

That said, I'm not quite sure about going that far.  The web certainly
uses UTF-8 and no other, but the scope is greater than that.  I would
suggest keeping much of Peter's original text, with a small change to
include the prohibition of encodings outside of UTF-8/-16/-32[1]:

   JSON text SHOULD be encoded in UTF-8 [UNICODE] (Section 3), and MAY
   be encoded in UTF-16 or UTF-32.  JSON texts that are encoded in UTF-8
   are interoperable in the sense that they will be read successfully by
   the maximum number of implementations.

   There are many implementations that cannot successfully read texts
   in other encodings.  JSON text MAY be encoded in other encodings if
   the generator is sure that the intended parsers can read them.

   Implementations MUST NOT add a byte order mark to the beginning of a
   JSON text.  In the interests of interoperability, implementations
   that parse JSON texts MAY ignore the presence of a byte order mark
   rather than treating it as an error.



- m&m

Matthew A. Miller

[1] RFC 7159 used "SHALL", which RFC 2119 specifies the meaning to be
identical to "MUST".