[Json] Re: IANA registrations

Henry Andrews <andrews_henry@yahoo.com> Tue, 19 May 2026 03:01 UTC

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From: Henry Andrews <andrews_henry@yahoo.com>
To: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
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 "foo.json#bar" would not be necessary.  Only JSON Pointers, which have a fragment syntax, are needed for instances.  The plain name fragments are only on schemas, which would have their own media type.  (I take no position on whether updating this would be feasible or not- it would be very convenient, though).
thanks,-henry
    On Monday, May 18, 2026 at 04:31:01 PM PDT, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:  
 
 On May 18, 2026 at 4:20:02 PM, Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
 
  Hello Henry, Eliot, others,

If we come to the conclusion that it makes sense to add a fragment 
syntax and/or a schema/profile parameter to application/json, we can 
just update the registration.


“just” is doing a lot of work here.  I would be pretty nervous about the IETF trying to tell the world what “foo.json#bar” means 25 years into JSON’s life. -Tim