1.8 Normative References, JSON Patch

[Patrick Durusau <patrick@durusau.net>]

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Greetings,

In 1.8 Normative References, JSON Patch is cited as:

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[JSON Patch] P. Bryan, M. Nottingham, “JSON Patch”, IETF Draft,
January 2013. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-json-patch-10
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There are two issues.

First, draft work should never be used in normative references at all.
Under any circumstances. As the TC Process notes (Section 1, w:):

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"Normative Reference" means a reference in a Standards Track Work
Product to an external document or resource with which the implementer
must comply, in order to comply with a Normative Portion of the Work
Product.
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Note the "must comply" language.

Drafts by their very nature change and reliance on a draft invites a
lack of interoperability.

Second issue, fortunately this work is no long in draft but a final RFC.

The correct citation is:

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RFC6902 Bryan, P., Ed., and M. Nottingham, Ed., "JavaScript Object
Notation (JSON) Patch", RFC 6902, April 2013.
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The canonical URL, in case you want to add it is:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6902.txt

On the status of a "draft standard" see:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
patrick@durusau.net
Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB)
Former Chair, V1 - US TAG to JTC 1/SC 34
Convener, JTC 1/SC 34/WG 3 (Topic Maps)
Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300
Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps)

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