Re: [Trans] Comments on RFC6962

Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> Tue, 11 March 2014 19:48 UTC

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On 3/10/14 at 5:18 PM, hallam@gmail.com (Phillip Hallam-Baker) wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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.

Oops - Sorry


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

Indeed, being explicit is always best when writing standards.

Cheers - Bill

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