[charles_f]

a) why would you want to remove the field names, this is making it so much harder to debug and very brittle, since now you're dependent on the order of fields. No mention of how you handle versioning as well. Back to csv

> However, this time, something felt wrong; I realized that with the JSON, we were exchanging a huge amount of unnecessary information to and from the server

b) Text size really ain't an issue given that we're talking about typically just a few kb on gzipped protocols over hundreds of mbps connections. Compactness sounds like a bad argument to me.

c) "json doesn't have schema built in is a really dubious argument". If you want schemas you can still get them using json-schema, and if you don't you can still understand the message using the field names, which makes for a degraded schema ; which doesn't exist in the case of internet objects. If you don't have the schema, go figure what's in there

What really gives it to me is the comparison at the bottom between internet objects anf json; json looks better to me.

Looks like it's an idea executed over a bad premise