Re: [community-group] Are token descriptions optional or required? (#62)

@delisma a JSON-LD document is a [conforming JSON document](https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/#abstract). 
> The syntax is designed to easily integrate into deployed systems that already use JSON, and provides a smooth upgrade path from JSON to JSON-LD.

The difference is an JSON-LD document are a contextualized JSON document and become more flexible because of the relation established between the JSON property name and a vocabulary term. (Linked Data)

There is several existing developer libraries that already support JSON-LD - https://json-ld.org/#developers

> And I'm not expecting designers to know JSON

The JSON format defined/used by this design token specification is intended for being implemented by developer that know JSON as mentioned in the first bullet in [Section 4](https://design-tokens.github.io/community-group/format/#file-format): "for **developers writing software** that supports design token files"

The discussion of using or not JSON-LD for design-token belong to another thread/discussion. My point was only to mention that the multilingual feature is already supported for JSON-LD documents and it is possible to upgrade JSON document into JSON-LD document.

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