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Re: [Json] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7493 (5354)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 11 May 2018 13:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7493 (5354)
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On May 11, 2018, at 10:21, Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Since we presumably agree on that integers represented as JSON Numbers can (in a scheme constrained by IEEE-754 double precision), cover exactly the range -(2**53) to 2**53, the issue boils down to the ability validating that you actually are sending or receiving integers within that range.

As I mentioned, you can’t validate that you are receiving -2**53, with a stock, fully interoperable I-JSON decoder implementation.

Both ECMAScript and I-JSON are right in taking out 2**53 out of the safe space.

(And, of course, lots more integers can be represented in binary64, e.g. all numbers 2**53+2*n where n is an unsigned integer < 2**52.  This is just not very useful for interoperable exchange of integers via JSON; neither for n=0 nor for other values of n.)

> Feel free rejecting this errata report.  

Yes, that is what should be done.

> Personally, I stick to “int53".

(int54, if such a thing existed, is still not I-JSON safe at MININT54 = -2**53.)

Grüße, Carsten

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