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

Xiaodong Lee lee at cnnic.cn
Tue Dec 9 13:13:29 CET 2008


I think it's better than that one.

--
-- Xiaodong LEE [The best answer is doing]
     +86-10-58813020
     mailto:lee at cnnic.cn
     http://lixiaodong.cn




在 2008-12-9,下午8:06, Patrik Fältström 写道:

> Does people think the "alternative property calculation" is "better"
> than the original one, so that that should be used in the document
> itself (i.e. 3.1)?
>
> I agree it should not be in Appendix A.
>
>    Patrik
>
> On 6 dec 2008, at 02.44, 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
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Idna-update mailing list
>> Idna-update at alvestrand.no
>> http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/idna-update
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Idna-update mailing list
> Idna-update at alvestrand.no
> http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/idna-update

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/idna-update/attachments/20081209/7f9f12ee/attachment.htm 


More information about the Idna-update mailing list