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Re: [Json] REMINDER - WGLC Ends 2013-10-11

Allen Wirfs-Brock <allen@wirfs-brock.com> Fri, 11 October 2013 23:01 UTC

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We really should avoid having two (Ecma-404 and rfc4627bis) normative syntax specifications for JSON text.  Since it is claimed that the 4627bis ABNF recognizes the same language as that described by the Ecma-404 syntax diagrams it would seem more appropriate for 4627bis to narratively reference Ecma-404 and say that the 4627bis ABNF is an informative restatement of the Ecma-404 syntax specification. 

Notational preference really isn't a very good reason to have  two different normative definitions of the same thing. 

Allen Wirfs-Brock

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