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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-03.txt> (The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format) to Internet Standard

2017-03-08 11:02:25
On 17/03/08 09:54, Julian Reschke wrote:
On 2017-02-21 23:01, Barry Leiba wrote:
...

Looking at
<https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-jsonbis-rfc7159bis-03.txt&url1=rfc7159>,
I see:

"Section 15.2 has been updated to remove ECMA 404, update the version of
ECMA-262, and refresh the errata list."

However, the ECMA-262 reference changes from

   [ECMA-262] Ecma International, "ECMAScript Language Specification
              Edition 5.1", Standard ECMA-262, June 2011,
              <http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/
              Ecma-262.htm>.

to

   [ECMA-262]
              Ecma International, "ECMAScript Language Specification,
              Third Edition", Standard ECMA-262, December 1999,
              <http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/
              ECMA-ST-ARCH/
              ECMA-262,%203rd%20edition,%20December%201999.pdf>.


...which looks like a downgrade to me.

I believe this should be:

   [ECMA-262]  Ecma International, "ECMAScript(R) 2016 Language
               Specification, 7th Edition", ECMA 262, June 2016,
               <https://www.ecma-international.org/ecma-262/7.0/>.

Best regards, Julian

Hello Julian,

the rationale for referencing third edition specifically is to give
evidence of the JSON's specification history.  Maybe the word "update"
is debatable here, but I think the reference itself is valid.


- m&m

Matthew A. Miller

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