I scanned through the data
which has to be carried by PAWS, and it looks to
me that there are two RFCs which we may consider
re-using: RFC5491 defines the xml encoding for
geo-location, I did not find a JSON encoding for
it. The other one is vCard, RFC6350. There is a
so called xCard, RFC6351, the xml representation
of vCard, but again, I have not found a JSON
encoding for vCard. vCard seems to be able to
handle contact information, schedule, etc, but
there are obviously other data fields, like
antenna parameters, which need to be defined in
PAWS.
First, I’d like to get some
opinions on whether the reuse of the data
structures defined in the above two RFCs is
generally considered a good idea or not. If we
want to reuse them, we’ll need to define a JSON
encoding for those. The alternative is to define
the whole data structure with JSON encoding in
PAWS.
I’d like to hear opinions on
which way is more feasible.
-
Gabor
