Re: [Json] Proposed rechartering for the JSON WG

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

Those schema scars must be deep, because Cyrus of course is right.

Having a minimal parseable description technique for JSON-based protocols would save us from tedium such as in RFC 7071 section 6.2.2.
(Not needing something like that ever again*) in the future is my personal benchmark for what we need to achieve here.)

The important thing**) here is the 80-20 rule — we don’t need to make this thing powerful or perfect, because we can always fall back to English.
But we shouldn’t always have to, even for the most basic purposes.

(draft-newton looks like an 85 % solution to me; maybe this can be even simpler.)

Grüße, Carsten

*) Yes, I know why it was done, and I agree that it had to be done at the time.

**) The other important thing is that a JSON description technique doesn’t have to be parse as JSON, just as an XML schema does not have to be parse as XML.
Why are people falling into this trap again and again...