Review of draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-10

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Sun Aug 23 06:31:54 CEST 2009


i think we still need the figure - john suggested moving the footnotes  
into the text to appear before the figure.

vint


On Aug 21, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> Anchor 10 above Figure 1 indicates that the figure might be shrunk.  
> I propose instead that the four footnotes simply be moved to  
> immediately after the figure, which makes the figure itself fit on  
> one page.
>
> In Figure 2, the terms "Binary Label (including high bit on)" and  
> "Bit String Label" are not defined and are confusing without  
> definition. Do we need this figure at all any more?
>
>
> Editorial:
>
> . . .
>   labels.  They are called FAKE A-Labels for convenience.
> s/FAKE A-Labels/"FAKE A-Labels/ (to be parallel with other  
> definitions)
> . . .
>      |    |  | ("??--") or R-LDH LABELS        | ______________    
> |   |
>      |    |  |                                 | |NON-RESERVED |   
> |   |
>      |    |  | ------------------------------- | | LDH LABELS  |   
> |   |
>      |    |  | |       XN LABELS             | | | (NR-LDH-    |   
> |   |
>      |    |  | | _____________   ___________ | | |   labels)   |   
> |   |
>      |    |  | | |           |   |          || | |NR-LDH LABELS|   
> |   |
> The second "NR-LDH LABELS" should be removed.
> . . .
>      |       |      ----------------------     
> |                       |
>      |       |      | Underscore labels  |     
> |                       |
>      |       |      |  e.g. _tcp         |     
> |                       |
>      |       |      |--------------------|     
> |                       |
>      |       |      | leading            |     
> |                       |
> s/leading/Labels with leading/
>      |       |      | or trailing        |     
> |                       |
>      |       |      | hyphens "-abcd"    |     
> |                       |
>      |       |      | or "xyz-"          |     
> |                       |
>      |       |      | or "-uvw-"         |     
> |                       |
>      |       |      |--------------------|     
> |                       |
>      |       |      | Other non-LDH      |     
> |                       |
> s/Other non-LDH/Labels with other non-LDH/
>      |       |      | ASCII chars        |     
> |                       |
>      |       |      | e.g. #$%_          |     
> |                       |
> . . .
>             (1) ASCII letters (upper and lower case), digits,
>                    hyphen.  Hyphen may not appear in first or last
>                    position. Less than 63 characters.
> s/Less than 63 characters./63 characters or fewer./
> . . .
> . . .
>   For IDNA-aware applications, valid labels include "A-labels",
> s/valid labels include/the three types of valid labels are/
>   "U-labels", and "NR-LDH-labels", each of which is defined below.   
> The
> . . .
>   Unvalidated A-labels are known only to be XN Labels, while Fake
> s/XN Labels/XN-Labels/ (this form is used in other places)
>   A-labels have been demonstrated to fail some of the A-label tests.
> . . .
>   is permitted in those contexts.  If only A-labels are used,
>   differences in interpretation between IDNA2003 and this version  
> arise
>   only for characters whose interpretation have actually changed  
> (e.g.,
>   characters, such as ZWJ and ZWNJ, that were mapped to nothing in
>   IDNA2003 and that are considered legitimate by these  
> specifications).
> s/legitimate/legitimate in some circumstances/
>
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