If you'd like to elaborate in a way that would be highly visible to 18F, feel free to weigh in on the issues page[1]. I will point out that JSON is recommended

If you'd like to elaborate in a way that would be highly visible to 18F, feel free to weigh in on the issues page[1]. I will point out that JSON is recommended as a default, and if there is a compelling reason not to use it in a specific case, that should be fine[2]. [1] https://github.com/18f/api-standards/issues https://github.com/18f/api-standards/issues or https://github.com/18F/api-standards/issues/8 https://github.com/18F/api-standards/issues/8 [2] https://github.com/18F/api-standards#just-use-json https://github.com/18F/api-standards#just-use-json