Re: [Json] Kicking Off JSONbis

["Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <[e-mail]>]

On 09/29/2015 02:53 PM, Matt Miller (mamille2) wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Welcome to the JSONbis working group!
> 
> The WG charter is at < https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jsonbis/charter/
> >.
> 
> In a nutshell, the goal of this effort is to produce a bis to 7159 that:
> 
> * promotes JSON to IETF Internet Standard * references ECMA-404 and is a
> reference for ECMA-404
> 
> Tim Bray has agreed to edit 7159bis.
> 
> As a start, I propose we start with rfc7159 and:
> 
> 1) Apply verified errata from <
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7159 > 2) Change the
> reference to ECMA-404 from informative to normative
> 
> 
> -  JSONbis Chair

I must admit that I am puzzled as to how ECMA-404 can be a normative
reference for any document that is a minor change from rfc7159.  What in
ECMA-404 is needed to understand or implement what is in rfc7159?

As has been stated, rfc7159 already references ECMA-404.  A conservative way
to make a closer connection from rfc7159 to ECMA-404 would be to state that
ECMA-404 has an alternative description of JSON that is extremely close to
the definition in rfc7159.

Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Nuance Communications