Suggestion for rearranging -BIDI

[Harald Alvestrand]

Mark Davis wrote:
> Now I'm confused. 
>
> I was in favor of reordering the rules after the intro. The other 
> stuff can come afterwards (that's what I meant by second, meaning 
> after first, which you used to mean "after intro" ;-).
>
> That is, I'm in favor of "He suggests placing the actual rules 
> (section 4) first (after intro),
>    followed by the rationale section, the requirements section and the
>    caveats/issues sections."
Thanks - that clarifies!
>
> (My parenthetic indicate what I think would be optimal, which would be 
> to put all IDNA rationale and background into the document called 
> "Background, Explanation, and Rationale"...) 
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:03, Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no 
> <mailto:harald at alvestrand.no>> wrote:
>
>     Mark Davis wrote:
>
>         I agree; the actual requirements should come first. (The rest
>         could either come second or even be moved to Rationale.)
>
>     That's not what's being proposed; the requirements are section 3,
>     the rules are section 4, and the proposal is to put section 4
>     first. Are you supporting the proposal, or suggesting a different one?
>
>
>         Mark
>
>
>
>         On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:07, Harald Alvestrand
>         <harald at alvestrand.no <mailto:harald at alvestrand.no>
>         <mailto:harald at alvestrand.no <mailto:harald at alvestrand.no>>>
>         wrote:
>
>            I have had a suggestion from one participant to reorder the
>            material in
>            -bidi.
>
>            He suggests placing the actual rules (section 4) first
>         (after intro),
>            followed by the rationale section, the requirements section
>         and the
>            caveats/issues sections.
>
>            The current layout (intro, rationale, requirements, rules,
>         caveats)
>            roughly reflects the thought stream that led to the
>         document. It
>            seemed
>            rational to me at the time, but may not seem rational to a
>         reader who
>            comes at it out of the blue.
>
>            What do other readers think of this?
>
>                               Harald
>
>
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