> On May 18, 2023, at 3:38 PM, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via SG15 <sg15_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 4:09 PM Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I highly recommend you talk to Thomas first. There may very well be
>> permissible ways to reference it that get you what you are looking for.
>
> I asked in the editors group. The advice seems to be that as long as
> there is an *immutable* version of a document that we want to refer to
> as normative we can regardless of its provenance. The key being the
> *immutable* version aspect. For semver it would mean referring to
> <https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html>, or whatever specific version we
> want. I.e. I think it's possible for semver. Which is great! As it
> means that it gives us more flexibility. Especially in the ongoing
> JSON vs. TOML arguments as the latter also has versioned definitions
> (<https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0>).

I’m not aware of these arguments, but in case any of those arguments have to do with standard references, note that JSON is standardized as ISO/IEC 21778:2017.

Tom.

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