Subject: [Json] Moving Forward

From: "Matt Miller (mamille2)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:58:20 +0000

Thank you all for providing feedback on the minimal proposal edit.  Clearly there is no consensus for it because the resulting document does not lead to interoperable implementations.  However, the chairs also think it is premature to declare failure now. Instead, we suggest the Working Group consider the fewest possible changes that can be made to then get consensus on the "minimal changes" proposal.

The responses focused on the need to make changes to the draft with respect to what is allowed in strings. Off-list, we heard a strong desire to make parsing objects that have duplicate names interoperable as well. The chairs will soon start two threads, one on each topic. If we get rough consensus on each of those, we can see whether that will be sufficient for us to revisit the "minimal changes" proposal; otherwise, we'll use those results and forge ahead with non-minimal changes, and possibly look at rechartering if we can't reach consensus under the current charter.

A personal plea from the chairs: let's avoid rechartering if at all possible. It delays things, it has failure modes, and it can lead to worse situations. If we have to, we have to, but we would really like y'all to think in terms of coming to consensus on the current charter if at all possible.

Thank you,

Paul Hoffman and Matt Miller