Re: [Jsonpath] Firing up the jsonpath working group

Not sure what we should cover in the meeting really.

I’m wondering if there is a quorum since it has been hard for people to find time to work on this so far. Or maybe there’s a bunch of eager volunteers currently lurking in the shadows?

We *could* talk about the writing/review process.

We *could* talk about how conservative we’ll be with respect to new features, but that discussion will probably need to be repeated on the mailing list anyway.

Glyn

> On 30 Oct 2020, at 23:05, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello! I'm Tim Bray; your co-chairs are James Gruessing and me. This is from both of us.
> 
> We’ll be virtually meeting Nov. 16th at this time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=JSONPath+WG+IETF+109+Session&iso=20201116T16&p1=28&ah=2 <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=JSONPath+WG+IETF+109+Session&iso=20201116T16&p1=28&ah=2>
> 
> This will be inconvenient for quite a lot of us, but just fine for our Asian colleagues who normally are the ones struggling out of bed in the middle of the night.  
> 
> Fairly-urgent action item: Agenda.  We need to have our draft agenda submitted next Wednesday and finalized on the ninth.  Please post any items to this mailing list.
> 
> Work is proceeding to get us a GitHub repo where draft specs and related material can be posted and diffed and PR'ed. 
> 
> I’d like to offer a reading list that I think people should glance over to get themselves equipped to participate in this work.
> Our charter: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-jsonpath/ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-jsonpath/>
> Stefan Gössner's original "XPath for JSON" write-up that is the only existing spec of any kind: https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/ <https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/>
> An Internet-Draft from Stefan and Carsten Bormann which IETF-izes Stefan's original draft and is designed to launch this discussion: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-goessner-dispatch-jsonpath-00.html <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-goessner-dispatch-jsonpath-00.html>
> Another Internet-draft style document from Normington, Surov, and Mikulicic, with the goal of specifying JSONPath: https://jsonpath-standard.github.io/internet-draft/ <https://jsonpath-standard.github.io/internet-draft/>
> "JSONPath Comparison", a comparison by Christoph Burgmer of many different JSONPath implementations and how they handle various JSONPath idioms: https://cburgmer.github.io/json-path-comparison/ <https://cburgmer.github.io/json-path-comparison/> - fabulous work!
> In case that document looks way too big and intimidating, an example of one of its detail pages: Bracket notation with dot: https://cburgmer.github.io/json-path-comparison/results/bracket_notation_with_dot.html <https://cburgmer.github.io/json-path-comparison/results/bracket_notation_with_dot.html>
> For those of you who are new-ish to the IETF, an excellent write-up of how things work: https://www.ietf.org/about/participate/tao <https://www.ietf.org/about/participate/tao>
> Mark Pilgrim's classic "Why specs matter": https://web.archive.org/web/20051016203842/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/08/16/specs <https://web.archive.org/web/20051016203842/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/08/16/specs> - it's short, to the point, and explains why good specifications need to be full of illustrative examples.
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