Re: [Jsonpath] [dispatch] draft-goessner-dispatch-jsonpath-00.txt

Plan B: Don't mention JSONPointer at all. It's not what we want to work on,
and the charter should be about what we want to work on.

On Mon., Sep. 14, 2020, 11:02 p.m. Mark Nottingham, <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On 15 Sep 2020, at 4:07 am, Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 5:20 PM Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
> > Two nits in the charter text:
> >
> > 1) I don't think it's necessary to compare this effort to JSONPointer;
> they do different things (querying a document vs. referring to a particular
> part of a document), just as XPath and XPointer do different things. Each
> has a place, it's not a matter of compatibility or supplanting JSONPath.
> So, 'Other, incompatible approaches exist... but have not succeeded in
> supplanting JSONPath' should be removed.
> >
> > I suggested including something like this to head off questions from
> people who might wonder why we're standardizing another JSON referencing
> method when JSON Pointer wasn't that long ago.  Perhaps:
> >
> > "This work is similar in concept to JSON Pointer (RFC xxxx) but
> documents a mechanism that has broader support yet is in need of formal
> standardization."
> >
> > ?
>
> No - it's not similar in concept, they're separate things. If you really
> wanted to mention JSON Pointer, you could say something like "Note that
> while JSON Pointer (RFC xxxx) is already standardised, it is designed to
> provide a reference to a single, specific part of a JSON document, whereas
> JSONPath provides the ability to query a document and potentially return
> multiple values."
>
>
> > 2) If this charter is predicated on adopting a specific draft, it should
> be listed (e.g., as we did in <
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-quic/01/>).
> >
> > I don't think there is such a draft yet, just the external source
> material.  We could say that the intent is to generate a draft from the
> text found there.
>
> I see two:
> * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-goessner-dispatch-jsonpath/
> * https://jsonpath-standard.github.io/internet-draft/
>
> Cheers,
>
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