Editing Tim Bray (section)

==Web standards==
Bray has contributed to standards in technology, particularly [[Web standards]] at the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C).

===XML===
As an Invited Expert at the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] between 1996 and 1999, Bray co-edited the [[XML]] and [[XML namespace]] specifications.  Halfway through the project Bray accepted a consulting engagement with [[Netscape]], provoking vociferous protests from Netscape competitor [[Microsoft]] (who had supported the initial moves to bring [[SGML]] to the web.){{fact|date=May 2020}} Bray was temporarily asked to resign the editorship.  This led to intense dispute in the Working Group, eventually solved by the appointment of Microsoft's [[Jean Paoli]] as third co-editor.

In 2001, Bray wrote an article called ''Taxi to the Future'' <ref>{{cite web|title=TAXI to the Future|url=http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/03/14/taxi.html|access-date=2012-07-08}}</ref> for Xml.com which proposed a means to improve web client user experience and web server system performance via a ''Transform-Aggregate-send XML-Interact'' architecture—this proposed system is very similar to the [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]] paradigm, popularized around 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/14/AJAX-Performance|title=ongoing · The Real AJAX Upside|author=Tim Bray|website=Ongoing|access-date=2008-10-26}}</ref>

===W3C TAG===
Between 2001 and 2004<ref>{{cite web|title=W3C TAG History, thru 2004 WebArch Recommendation|url=http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/tag-2004|publisher=W3C}}</ref> he served as a [[Tim Berners-Lee]] appointee<ref>{{cite web|title=TAG - representation "from the larger Web community"?|url=http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2001Dec/0006.html|author=Dan Connolly|publisher=W3C}}</ref> to the [[W3C]] [[Technical Architecture Group]].<ref>{{cite web|title=How does XML measure up?|url=http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39116628-1,00.htm|author=David Becker|publisher=[[CNET Networks]]|access-date=2008-10-26}}</ref>

===Atom===
Until October 2007, Bray was co-chair, with Paul Hoffman, of the [[Atom (standard)|Atom]]-focused Atompub Working Group of the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]].  Atom is a web syndication format developed to address perceived deficiencies with the [[RSS (file format)|RSS 2.0 format]].

===JSON===
Bray worked with the IETF JSON Working Group in 2013 and 2014, serving as editor of RFC 7159, a specification of the JSON Data Interchange Format which revised RFC 4627 and highlighted interoperability best practices, released in March 2014.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bray |first1=T. |year=2014 |title=RFC 7159: The JSON Data Interchange Format |url=http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159 |journal=Internet Engineering Task Force |doi=10.17487/RFC7159 |doi-access=free |editor-last1=Bray |editor-first1=T.}}</ref> He also edited RFC 8259, a further revision of JSON.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bray |first1=T. |year=2017 |title=RFC 8259: The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format |url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8259 |journal=Internet Engineering Task Force |doi=10.17487/RFC8259 |s2cid=263868313 |editor-last1=Bray |editor-first1=T.|url-access=subscription }}</ref>