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

[Mark Davis]

I find the alternative formulation (
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-04#appendix-A.1) much
easier to read than the current "main" one (
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-04#section-3), and
would prefer replacing the contents of the main one with the alternate one,
then deleting the appendix.

Mark


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 04:06, Patrik Fältström <patrik at frobbit.se> wrote:

> 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
> >
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