If WCON supports zipped files with the extension .wcon, standard file system tools will not realize that they can actually unzip the file. Thus, .zip should be mandatory for zip support.
(I do not believe that there are any valid JSON files which are also valid zip files, so I don't think we have to worry about ambiguity, but if .zip is used if and only if it's a zip file, that isn't ever an issue.)