Re: SVG12: RFC 3066 reference

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:57:48 +0900, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:

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> On Thursday, October 20, 2005, 12:01:02 PM, Martin wrote:
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> MD> At 22:06 05/10/19, Chris Lilley wrote:
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>  >>On Monday, April 25, 2005, 12:47:44 AM, Bjoern wrote:
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>  >>BH> No it does not, XML 1.0 Third Edition clearly refers to RFC 3066  
> or its
>  >>BH> successor.
>  >>
>  >>Yes, it does. Sorry, we misunderstood you to be saying "remove the ref
>  >>to 3066 and replace it with a ref to an ID" which we were, naturally,
>  >>unwilling to do.
>  >>
>  >>Now that we understand what you are actually asking, we are happy to
>  >>agree and have updated the references to say 3066 "or its successor on
>  >>the IETF Standards Track".
>  >>
>  >>Please let us know if this is not satisfactory, within two weeks.
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> MD> Hello Chris,
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> MD> This is close to satisfactory, but not exactly. RFC 3066 is a BCP,
> MD> and its successor is also going to be a BCP, so neither of them
> MD> are on the IETF Standards Track (which goes Proposed -> Draft ->  
> Standard).
> MD> Your wording is therefore too precise,
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> ah, okay.
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> MD> and you should change it to
> MD> the wording in the XML Spec (or something equivalent if you really  
> need to).
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> Looking at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-existing-stds
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> IETF RFC 3066
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>     IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). RFC 3066: Tags for the
>     Identification of Languages, ed. H. Alvestrand. 2001. (See
>     http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt.)
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> I don't see any suitable "or its successor" text to use.

The values of the attribute are language identifiers as defined by [IETF  
RFC 3066], Tags for the Identification of Languages, or its successor; in  
addition, the empty string MAY be specified.

 from http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-lang-tag

is that the text you are thinking of, Martin?

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