Protocol-08 (and status of Defs-04 and Rationale-06)

Erik van der Poel erikv at google.com
Wed Dec 10 14:35:22 CET 2008


Sure, I'll send it separately.

Erik

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams
<ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net> wrote:
> That's a generous offer Harald and I accept.
>
> Erik, could I trouble you for the C++ code you wrote?
>
> Eric
>
> Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>>
>> Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm concerned that the proposed rules are overly broad, if a label can be
>>> 63 characters, and the claim is that no two of them can have properties A
>>> and B, where one has property A and one has property B, then is the proposed
>>> rule true for some positional possibilities, but not all, or true for all.
>>>
>>> If all, then the rule is minimal. If only some, then it would be nice, at
>>> least, to be able to describe, and algorithmically would be really nice, the
>>> set(s) for which the rule is correct, and the set(s) for which the rule is
>>> incorrect.
>>>
>>> I'm happy to continue this off-list, as my original, and similar query
>>> about rule 4 didn't get to "what do we know and how do we know it".
>>
>> Eric,
>>
>> if you want to look at my Perl code, you're welcome to it.
>>
>> Warning: It's not pretty.
>>
>>                Harald
>>
>>
>>
>


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