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Strengthen "$schema" + "$vocabulary" requirements

Open handrews opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

There is currently no normative language requiring "$schema" to be respected. Particularly for supporting optional vocabularies without requiring custom code (see #1300), there needs to be a mandatory requirement to inspect the meta-schema for $vocabulary. Guidance would be needed for the case when the meta-schema is not available. Probably also guidance that schema publishers are expected to make their meta-schemas as available as their schemas whenever they use custom meta-schemas. We probably also need wording around when the meta-schema is not in $schema but is provided as a media type parameter.

handrews avatar Sep 19 '22 15:09 handrews

This issue doesn't mean that we have to keep $schema and $vocabulary exactly as they are, just that whatever we end up with in the next release needs normative language that guarantees predictable behavior.

handrews avatar Sep 23 '22 02:09 handrews