Editing suggestion/question about Rationale

Paul Hoffman phoffman at imc.org
Fri May 8 18:16:31 CEST 2009


At 12:05 PM -0400 5/8/09, John C Klensin wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Based on several suggestions, I'm in the process of doing a
>significant editing pass through Rationale and Protocol,
>removing repetitive text and text that was there for WG
>discussion purposes but that no longer seems relevant and making
>other discussions more clear.
>
>In that context, Rationale has contained a number of sentences
>or paragraphs that emphasize that they are non-normative.  Some
>of that material predates splitting Protocol and/or Defs out
>from it and just never got removed.  Other bits were added for
>emphasis but not longer seem as necessary as they once did.
>There is no longer _any_ normative text in Rationale.  Does
>anyone have significant objections to making sure that is clear
>in the introductory material and then removing all of the
>section-specific statements (and, if so, why do you object)?

On the contrary: that would be an excellent change.

>Clearing it out would make some of the text significantly easier
>to follow.

+1


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