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Mark, based on the discussions here in minneapolis, I think we would like to reduce the amount of restructuring now and go for content focus. I will leave it to editors to assess the utility of further format adjustments. Not disagreeing with your point but frankly focused on reporting out final docs as soon as possible. V</font></p>
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<br><b>To</b>: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
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<br><b>Sent</b>: Tue Nov 18 12:46:04 2008<br><b>Subject</b>: Re: Suggestion for rearranging -BIDI
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Now I'm confused. <div><br></div><div>I was in favor of reordering the rules after the intro. The other stuff can come afterwards (that's what I meant by second, meaning after first, which you used to mean "after intro" ;-).</div>
<div><br></div><div>That is, I'm in favor of "He suggests placing the actual rules (section 4) first (after intro),</div> followed by the rationale section, the requirements section and the<br> caveats/issues sections."<div>
<br></div><div>(My parenthetic indicate what I think would be optimal, which would be to put all IDNA rationale and background into the document called "Background, Explanation, and Rationale"...) </div><div><div>
<br clear="all">Mark<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:03, Harald Alvestrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harald@alvestrand.no">harald@alvestrand.no</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Mark Davis wrote:<br>
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I agree; the actual requirements should come first. (The rest could either come second or even be moved to Rationale.)<br>
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That's not what's being proposed; the requirements are section 3, the rules are section 4, and the proposal is to put section 4 first. Are you supporting the proposal, or suggesting a different one?<br>
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Mark<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:07, Harald Alvestrand <<a href="mailto:harald@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">harald@alvestrand.no</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:harald@alvestrand.no" target="_blank">harald@alvestrand.no</a>>> wrote:<br>
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I have had a suggestion from one participant to reorder the<br>
material in<br>
-bidi.<br>
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He suggests placing the actual rules (section 4) first (after intro),<br>
followed by the rationale section, the requirements section and the<br>
caveats/issues sections.<br>
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The current layout (intro, rationale, requirements, rules, caveats)<br>
roughly reflects the thought stream that led to the document. It<br>
seemed<br>
rational to me at the time, but may not seem rational to a reader who<br>
comes at it out of the blue.<br>
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What do other readers think of this?<br>
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Harald<br>
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