On 8 Oct 2013, at 23:39, "Mark S. Miller" <erig...@google.com> wrote:
> JSON must not change. If it refers to "the latest Unicode, whatever that is", 
> then it is potentially subject to disruption by (admittedly unlikely) future 
> changes to Unicode.

By that logic, it should have referred to either Unicode v5.0.0 or v4.1.0 
because that were the latest available versions back in July 2006 as per 
http://www.unicode.org/history/publicationdates.html.

On 8 Oct 2013, at 23:51, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
> If you look at the actual dependencies, it hardly matter as they are upon 
> things that is very hard to image ever changing.
> 
> The dependencies are:
>     1)The definition of "code point" 
> http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch03.pdf#G2212 
>     2) the actual code point to abstract character associations for the 
> "ASCII characters" mentioned in the spec. 
>     3) the UTF-16 encoding algorithm used for non-BMP code points
>     4)  ?? is there anything else?

Not as far as I can tell.

On 8 Oct 2013, at 23:51, Allen Wirfs-Brock <al...@wirfs-brock.com> wrote:
> I suspect the version specificity could be removed in the future.


Yay!
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