[Json] Possible next work for the WG

[Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]>]

Greetings again. While our AD ponders the 4627bis document (probably on its way to IETF Last Call), the Working Group can start to think about what it wants to do next, if anything. The chairs have heard of at least four topics that the WG might or might not want to add to its charter:

- I-JSON (a profile of JSON with some interoperability issues nailed down)

- Best practices document for JSON implementers and folks who use JSON in protocols

- Canonicalization rules so that two JSON texts can be compared for equality

- Requirements for JSON schema (which will be needed before the WG considers working on an actual schema)

The chairs request general comments on these or additional topics for the WG. If there is interest, we will re-open the topics on separate threads, and then put together a proposal for rechartering. If people really want this WG to shut down after 4627bis is done without doing additional work, that is a valid view as well. 

Note that we have also heard requests for non-compatible additions to the JSON syntax, particularly for comments and byte-oriented data. If the WG wanted to adopt this work, we would probably need to talk with our ADs and the IAB because that might be better handled by Ecma in a possible revsion to ECMA-404.

--Matt Miller and Paul Hoffman