On Sun, Apr 29, 2018, 19:35 L. David Baron <dba...@dbaron.org> wrote:
> OK, here's a draft of an explicit abtension that I can submit later > today. Does this seem reasonable? > This looks good to me. Thank you. > > One concern that we've had over the past few years about JSON-LD > is that some people have been advocating that formats adopt > JSON-LD semantics, but at the same time allow processing as > regular JSON, as a way to make the adoption of JSON-LD > lighter-weight for producers and consumers who (like us) don't > want to have to implement full JSON-LD semantics. This yields a > format with two classes of processors that will produce different > results on many inputs, which is bad for interoperability. And > full JSON-LD implementation is often more complexity than needed > for both producers and consumers of content. We don't want > people who produce Web sites or maintain Web browsers to have to > deal with this complexity. For more details on this issue, see > https://hsivonen.fi/no-json-ns/ . > > This leads us to be concerned about the Coordination section in > the charter, which suggests that some W3C Groups that we are > involved in or may end up implementing the work of (Web of > Things, Publishing) will use JSON-LD. We would prefer that the > work of these groups not use JSON-LD for the reasons described > above, but this charter seems to imply that they will. > > While in general we support doing maintenance (and thus aren't > objecting), we're also concerned that the charter is quite > open-ended about what new features will be included (e.g., > referring to "requests for new features" and "take into account > new features and desired simplifications that have become > apparent since its publication"). As the guidance in > https://www.w3.org/Guide/standards-track/ suggests, new features > should be limited to those already incubated in the CG. (If we > were planning to implement, we might be objecting on these > grounds.) > > > -David > > -- > ๐ L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ ๐ > ๐ข Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ ๐ > Before I built a wall I'd ask to know > What I was walling in or walling out, > And to whom I was like to give offense. > - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914) > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
