Re: [Json] secdir review of draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-03

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On 13/03/2017 07:51, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
My personal opinion is that we could try to fix this by changing the
following:


   JSON text SHALL be encoded in UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32 [UNICODE]
   (Section 3).  The default encoding is UTF-8, and JSON texts that are
   encoded in UTF-8 are interoperable in the sense that they will be
   read successfully by the maximum number of implementations; there are
   many implementations that cannot successfully read texts in other
   encodings (such as UTF-16 and UTF-32).


to something like the following:


   JSON text SHOULD be encoded in UTF-8 [UNICODE]
   (Section 3).  JSON texts that are
   encoded in UTF-8 are interoperable in the sense that they will be
   read successfully by the maximum number of implementations.

   There are
   many implementations that cannot successfully read texts in other
   encodings (such as UTF-16 and UTF-32). JSON text MAY be encoded in
   UTF-16 or UTF-32 [UNICODE] (Section 3) if the sender is sure that
   the intended recipients can read them.


My only thought is to perhaps reflect that JSON isn't only transmitted, and JSON can be used for file based configuration etc, (even if this isn't strictly IETFs concern). So perhaps s/sender/encoder/ in the last sentence, plus a few other tweaks yielding something like:

    There are many implementations that cannot successfully read texts
    in other encodings (such as UTF-16 and UTF-32 [UNICODE]).  JSON
    text MAY be encoded in other encodings if the encoder is sure that
    the intended recipients can read them.

Pete.
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