Re: [Json] [apps-discuss] JSON mailing list and BoF

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <[e-mail]>]

* Joe Hildebrand (jhildebr) wrote:
>As a start, we know there are a couple of things we'd like to fix about
>RFC 4627:
>
>- move to standards track
>- an ABNF indentation typo in section 2.2
>- change SHOULD to MUST for the uniqueness of names in an object
>
>A *very* important goal would be to minimize change, and to ensure strict
>backward-compatibility.

A Working Group will also likely have to look at revising the rules to
detect the character encoding in application/json resources (there is a
lack of consensus whether to auto-detect UTF-32 and whether to honour a
Unicode signature, whether to support UTF-32 when it is detected, and so
on, partly due to how people load JSON resources; a generic "load text"
API for instance might detect and remove a Unicode signature before the
data is passed to a JSON parser; this used to be true for XMLHttpRequest
for instance, I haven't checked the current situation there though).
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