[webfinger] Redefining "properties"
"Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com> Tue, 12 August 2014 02:29 UTC
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Subject: [webfinger] Redefining "properties"
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Folks, I have been asked by multiple people for different purposes to see if it might be possible to redefine "properties" in the JSON Resource Descriptor. Per RFC 7033, "properties" is defined as an object that has zero or more name/value pairs whose values are strings or null. The suggestion is that the values should be any valid JSON type. Thus, a property might refer to a string (as is does now) or it might refer to an object or array. This change would break any parsers strictly implement definition of "properties". So, there are two questions I want to present to those who are interested: 1) Would you be agreeable to change the current definition of "properties" to allow any value type? 2) If not, would be agreeable to introducing something like "properties" that essentially allows for the same and, if so, what should this new object be named? Personally, as much as I don't like breaking backward-compatibility, I'm favorable to redefining properties to accomodate what people want to do. I'm willing to work on an RFC 7033bis and/or a new RFC to update the JRD specification, if folks are agreeable to either (1) or (2). Paul
- [webfinger] Redefining "properties" Paul E. Jones
- Re: [webfinger] Redefining "properties" Will Norris
- Re: [webfinger] Redefining "properties" Paul E. Jones
- Re: [webfinger] Redefining "properties" Mike Jones
- Re: [webfinger] Redefining "properties" Will Norris
- Re: [webfinger] Redefining "properties" John Bradley