idnabis-tables-04 problem #3: Appendix A.1 out of place

[Martin Duerst]

Ken, Patrick, others: What about putting the alternative property calculations in a separate Appendix (B or whatever is free next)?

Regards,   Martin.

At 10:44 08/12/06, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>Patrik, et al.,
>
>On to the next problem:
>
>Problem #3: Appendix A.1 out of place.
>
>Appendix A.1 "Alternative property calculation" is
>definitely out of place in the document.
>
>Appendix A is the "Contextual Rules Registry"
>section, and Appendices A.2, A.3, etc., are all specifications
>of particular context rules involving particular
>code points, using a parallel structure.
>Appendix A.1 has nothing to do with that, but instead
>is a restatement of the sequential rules of
>Section 3 as a (sequentially-evaluated) single
>expression.
>
>The correct place for this in the document would be in
>a Section 3.1, directly after the statement of the rules
>in Section 3, removing it from the confusing context
>it is in now in Appendix A.
>
>If the thinking was that having an alternative property
>calculation needs to be considered just an informative
>note and thus belongs in an appendix, then Appendix A
>is certainly the wrong place, because the content
>of Appendix A is clearly going to be considered highly
>normative by all implementers of the protocol.
>
>So my suggestion would be to move it to a Section 3.1,
>instead, and apply whatever language there that you
>deem necessary to make it clear that it is an
>informative restatement of how to do the derivation.
>
>--Ken
>
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