[occi-wg] Simple JSON rendering for OCCI

[Tim Bray]

On May 12, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Alexander Papaspyrou wrote:

> Actually, I still don't see a problem here.
>
> If we have an abstract rendering, which formally specifies the  
> semantics of the data, and normative renderings which formally  
> define the mapping to concrete formats (JSON, CSV, etc.), then it is  
> trivial to put a converter (say, XSLT in the XML case) between them  
> to map the data.

That's true in theory.  In practice, we observe that agreeing on a  
formal model in an interoperable way is immensely more difficult than  
interoperating on the actual bits-on-the-wire of a protocol.   
Consider, for couple of examples, the Internet and the World Wide  
Web.  -Tim