Re: [Jsonpath] JSONPath draft charter

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Wed, 02 September 2020 17:54 UTC

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From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:54:04 -0700
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I made https://github.com/jsonpath-wg/charter/pull/2 to say changes to
JMESPath and JSON Pointer are not contemplated. I actually don't have much
of an opinion as to whether this is an improvement, so I'm OK either way.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 9:20 AM Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:45 AM Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-09-02, at 17:39, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > We're maybe overthinking this. Yes, JSONPointer and JMESpath exist, but
>> lots of people are using JSONPath, there's good software support but no
>> spec, so it would be beneficial to write a spec. What's the alternative,
>> everyone now using JSONPath rewrites their software because the alternative
>> has a spec?
>>
>> I think this is just a “we made our homework” type statement: We looked
>> at these and know that they exist, but the proposed WG is something
>> different.
>>
>
> Right; preempt such questions from the IESG, basically.
>
> Murray: Du you think that what we have is good enough to send it back to
>> DISPATCH?
>>
>
> Yes, I think so.  Some ADs like to see mention of things that are
> explicitly out of scope; if you feel so inclined, you could mention that
> updates to JSON Pointer or drafts about JMESPath will not be considered,
> but I would be willing to send this up without that, so your choice.
>
> -MSK
>