The IETF just published RFC 8259 (also known as “STD 90”). Editor, yr humble servant. The legacy-ASCII full text is here and there’s a nice-looking HTML verion here. I think this is the last specification of JSON that anyone will ever publish. The story of how we got to RFC 7159, this RFC’s predecessor, is told in JSON Redux AKA RFC7159 and I won’t re-tell it. The reason 8259 exists is that the EC