Re: [Trans] Comments on RFC6962

Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> Tue, 11 March 2014 00:14 UTC

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On 3/10/14 at 12:25 PM, hallam@gmail.com (Phillip Hallam-Baker) wrote:

>There is an open question on how to manage JSON extensibility.

There's no problem here. JSON will not be extended. Doug 
Crockford, the inventor of JSON is adamant that there is only 
one version. Forever.

Now someone may make a new serialization format that shares many 
features with JSON, but it won't be JSON.

Cheers - Bill

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