Protocol-08 (and status of Defs-04 and Rationale-06)

[Eric Brunner-Williams]

That's a generous offer Harald and I accept.

Erik, could I trouble you for the C++ code you wrote?

Eric

Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
>> I'm concerned that the proposed rules are overly broad, if a label 
>> can be 63 characters, and the claim is that no two of them can have 
>> properties A and B, where one has property A and one has property B, 
>> then is the proposed rule true for some positional possibilities, but 
>> not all, or true for all.
>>
>> If all, then the rule is minimal. If only some, then it would be 
>> nice, at least, to be able to describe, and algorithmically would be 
>> really nice, the set(s) for which the rule is correct, and the set(s) 
>> for which the rule is incorrect.
>>
>> I'm happy to continue this off-list, as my original, and similar 
>> query about rule 4 didn't get to "what do we know and how do we know 
>> it". 
> Eric,
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> if you want to look at my Perl code, you're welcome to it.
>
> Warning: It's not pretty.
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>                 Harald
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