<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I think it's better than that one.<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: STHeiti; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: STHeiti; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">--</div><div>-- Xiaodong LEE [The best answer is doing]</div><div> +86-10-58813020</div><div> <a href="mailto:lee@cnnic.cn">mailto:lee@cnnic.cn</a></div><div> <a href="http://lixiaodong.cn">http://lixiaodong.cn</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>在 2008-12-9，下午8:06， Patrik Fältström 写道：</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Does people think the "alternative property calculation" is "better" <br>than the original one, so that that should be used in the document <br>itself (i.e. 3.1)?<br><br>I agree it should not be in Appendix A.<br><br> Patrik<br><br>On 6 dec 2008, at 02.44, Kenneth Whistler wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Patrik, et al.,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On to the next problem:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Problem #3: Appendix A.1 out of place.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Appendix A.1 "Alternative property calculation" is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">definitely out of place in the document.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Appendix A is the "Contextual Rules Registry"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">section, and Appendices A.2, A.3, etc., are all specifications<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of particular context rules involving particular<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">code points, using a parallel structure.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Appendix A.1 has nothing to do with that, but instead<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is a restatement of the sequential rules of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Section 3 as a (sequentially-evaluated) single<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">expression.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The correct place for this in the document would be in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a Section 3.1, directly after the statement of the rules<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in Section 3, removing it from the confusing context<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">it is in now in Appendix A.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If the thinking was that having an alternative property<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">calculation needs to be considered just an informative<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">note and thus belongs in an appendix, then Appendix A<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is certainly the wrong place, because the content<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of Appendix A is clearly going to be considered highly<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">normative by all implementers of the protocol.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">So my suggestion would be to move it to a Section 3.1,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">instead, and apply whatever language there that you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">deem necessary to make it clear that it is an<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">informative restatement of how to do the derivation.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--Ken<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Idna-update mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Idna-update@alvestrand.no">Idna-update@alvestrand.no</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/idna-update">http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/idna-update</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Idna-update mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Idna-update@alvestrand.no">Idna-update@alvestrand.no</a><br>http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/idna-update<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>