On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:29:16AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> <shepherd hat on>
> > Item [F] about the <angle-bracketed> text in the IANA Considerations
> > (Section 4) remains open - if the intent is to not deal with replacing
> > that text until after IESG approval, an RFC Editor Note to that effect
> > should be added to Section 4.
>
> David: I disagree with the need for this change. The RFC Editor can
> interpret the current wording just fine.
I'll leave them as-is then.
> > I have an additional editorial concern - given all the discussion about
> > UTF-8, it would be good for the draft to make it clear early on
> > that JSON text sequences are UTF-8 only. Here are some suggested changes.
> >
> > Abstract:
> >
> > This document describes the JSON text sequence format and associated
> > media type, "application/json-seq". A JSON text sequence consists of
> > any number of JSON texts, each prefix by an Record Separator
> > (U+001E), and each ending with a newline character (U+000A).
> >
> > "any number of JSON texts" -> "any number of UTF-8 encoded JSON texts"
>
> This change concerns me, because it sounds like a JSON text sequence
> could consist of JSON texts encoded in UTF-8 and other encodings. I
> would instead prefer "any number of JSON texts, all encoded in
> UTF-8,".
I'll take this.
> I also just now noticed that there is a typo in the abstract: it
> should say "each prefix*ed*".
Fixed.
> > It also looks like ASCII names for RS and LF are being mixed w/Unicode
> > codepoints in the second sentence in the abstract. I'm not sure that's
> > a good thing to do, especially as the body of the draft refers to RS and
> > LF as being ASCII. Here are a couple of changes that would remedy this:
> >
> > "an Record Separator (U+001E)" -> "an ASCII Record Separator (0x1E)"
> > "a newline character (U+000A)" -> "an ASCII newline character (0x0A)"
>
> With John Cowan's change ("an ASCII Line Feed character (0x1E)"
> instead of "an ASCII Record Separator (0x1E)"), that would indeed be
> clearer.
OK.
> > Section 2 JSON Text Sequence Format:
> >
> > I suggest adding this sentence as a separate paragraph at the end of this
> > section (i.e., just before Section 2.1):
> >
> > JSON text sequences MUST use UTF-8 encoding; other encodings of JSON
> > (i.e., UTF-16 and UTF-32) MUST NOT be used.
>
> That seems like a good clarifying addition as well.
>
> Nico: could you issue a -11 with the above changes?
I'll confirm the posting seconds from sending this.
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