Subject: [Json] [Errata Rejected] RFC8259 (6208)

From: RFC Errata System <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 07:38:37 -0700 (PDT)

The following errata report has been rejected for RFC8259,
"The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format".

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You may review the report below and at:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6208

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Status: Rejected
Type: Technical

Reported by: David Golden <[email-masked]>
Date Reported: 2020-06-10
Rejected by: Barry Leiba (IESG)

Section: 8.1

Original Text
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In the interests of interoperability, implementations that parse JSON texts MAY ignore the presence of a byte order mark rather than treating it as an error.

Corrected Text
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In the interests of interoperability, implementations that parse JSON texts MAY ignore the presence of a byte order mark or MAY interpret a byte order mark to indicate an alternate encoding rather than treating it as an error.

Notes
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The original line is copied from previous RFCs that specifically allowed alternate encodings.  In the context of a new, UTF-8 only restriction, interoperability provisions should also address interpreting legacy formats that predate the restriction.  By omission, readers may conclude that the *only* option for a BOM is to ignore or error.
 --VERIFIER NOTES-- 
   This is asking to revisit what we have consensus on, not a report of an error in the RFC.
The working group had extensive discussions on BOMs, and chose this particular working purposefully.

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RFC8259 (draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-04)
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Title               : The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format
Publication Date    : December 2017
Author(s)           : T. Bray, Ed.
Category            : INTERNET STANDARD
Source              : Javascript Object Notation Update
Area                : Applications and Real-Time
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG