RFC 7493, "The I-JSON Message Format", March 2015

Errata ID: 6861
Status: Reported
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Chris Morgan
Date Reported: 2022-02-25

Section 2.1 says:

   Object member names, and string values in arrays and object members,
   MUST NOT include code points that identify Surrogates or
   Noncharacters as defined by [UNICODE].

It should say:

   Object member names, and string values,
   MUST NOT include code points that identify Surrogates or
   Noncharacters as defined by [UNICODE].

Notes:

The expression “string values in arrays and object members” is overly qualified, excluding cases where the *entire message* is a string value, which should clearly be covered also. So the qualification “in arrays and object members” should be removed.

Supporting citations:

RFC 7493, section 2: “An I-JSON message is a JSON text, as defined by RFC 7159.”

RFC 7159, section 2: “A JSON text is a serialized value. Note that certain previous specifications of JSON constrained a JSON text to be an object or an array. […]”

RFC 7159, section 2:

JSON-text = ws value ws

RFC 7159, section 3:

value = false / null / true / object / array / number / string

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