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 dev@. 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)?

> Unless the community is willing to standardise a JSON canonicalisation
> specification through a standards body like the IETF, I'm going to  
> loose
> interest, and I rather suspect others will do so too.

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.

Antony Blakey
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