Re: [Json] Proposed change to the title of the spec - LAST CHANCE ON PROPOSALS

[Tatu Saloranta <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Nico Williams <[e-mail]>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Stefan Drees <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > I thus hereby propose as new title:
> >
> > NEW:
> > """
> >
> >         The JSON Text Format
> >
> > """
>
> I would object.  It is conceivable to have a binary encoding (like the
> recently proposed CBOR) that could (or a subset of which could)
> represent the same data as JSON.  And it might even be possible to
> update the UTF detection logic to support the such an encoding.  The
> new thing could be equivalent to JSON and a reasonable transformation
> of it, but it wouldn't be text.


Not just could but there already exist multiple, like Smile (
http://wiki.fasterxml.com/SmileFormatSpec) and ubjson (http://ubjson.org/).
Smile supports auto-detection just as you suggested, to allow seamless
detection.
And indeed, the idea of logical JSON model and one or more matching
physical serializations is simple, powerful and useful thing (similar to
binary infosets for xml).

Then again, _this_ specification does define details of textual
serialization of logical model, so existence of binary serialization does
not in itself invalidate use of "text" in title.

-+ Tatu +-