Re: [Json] Two Documents
John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Thu, 13 June 2013 15:57 UTC
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Douglas Crockford scripsit: > The confusion and controversy around this work is due to a mistake > that I made in RFC 4627. The purpose of the RFC, which is clearly > indicated in the title, was to establish a MIME type. I also gave > a description of the JSON Data Interchange Format. My mistake was > in conflating the two, putting details about the MIME type into the > description of the format. My intention was to add clarity. That > obviously was not the result. Indeed. > So we should be working on at least two documents, which is something > we have discussed earlier. The first is The JSON Data Interchange > Format, which is a simple grammar. The second is a best practices > document, which recommends specific conventions of usage. Fine, but the definition of the application/json media type can't be exiled to a BCP. It either has to be in a separate standards-track RFC, or needs to be in the same RFC as the definition of JSON format but in a different section of it. The latter strikes me as more sensible. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know
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