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

Eric Brunner-Williams ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net
Wed Dec 10 14:42:51 CET 2008


Thanks also.

Erik van der Poel wrote:
> 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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