On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:56:04PM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote: > > On 09/03/2009, at 12:42 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > >> The choice of mailing list has no bearing on good practice. > > This is a list to discuss uses of CouchDB, rather than the core or > direction of the product, which is d...@. If this were dev@ then the > discussion would be in the context of official CouchDB support and/or > incorporation. As this is user@, what is an RFC a prerequisite for > (apart from your interest)?
I am speaking as a user of CouchDB, not a developer. If the community wants to interest me in a canonicalisation of JSON then I want to see that the plan is to push this through the IETF as an RFC. Otherwise, what's the point? > IMO it's a bit early to make this call. Let's see how it goes - at least > two people are interested, and if it's supported by some third party > libraries, then maybe more people will use it. Thus are communities born. Communities can form around the standards track process too. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
