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Re: [Trans] Comments on RFC6962

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Tue, 11 March 2014 00:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Trans] Comments on RFC6962
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

You are misunderstanding me.

The 'JSON extensibility' issue is not how to extend JSON encoding, the
issue is how to handle extensibility of the TRANS protocol that is encoded
in JSON.

Adding tags in JSON is straightforward and existing applications SHOULD
simply ignore them. But we should probably make some sort of explicit
statement.


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