On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The way I think the process should work is:1) The IAB identifies the need for a consensus binary encoding for JSON as a platform the IETF community can build on (or why call it an architecture board).
It’s not obvious that such a consensus exists. In my experience, message parsing times are dominated by memory management and network pipes are congested by multimedia files and wrapping binary blobs in general-purpose data packaging formats is usually the wrong thing to do anyhow for a variety of reasons. Thus, I question the utility of a binary encoding of JSON. Examining the trial of tears that went into the attempts to make a “binary XML” would be instructive in this context.