- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:43:05 +0200
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Maciej Stachowiak, Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:56:31 -0700: > Perhaps someone should write a Change Proposal that requests a > reference to the ECMA PDF. [...] UPDATE: I suggest linking to the ECMA-6 homepage [a] instead of directly to the PDF [b]. This is similar to how HTML5's UNICODE reference [c] links to a particular homepage [d] at unicode.org. The ECMA-6 homepage also refers to [ANSI X3.4] by stating the following: "This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 646." (ANSI X3.4 being a predecessor of ISO/IEC 646 [e].) [a] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-006.htm [b] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-006.pdf [c] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/references.html#refsUNICODE [d] http://www.unicode.org/versions/ [e] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_646#History UPDATED proposal hereby submitted: SUMMARY Replace HTML5's current ASCII reference [1] with a link to the ECMA-6 homepage [2]. RATIONALE The ECMA-6 homepage [2] offers free download of ECMA-6 – "also approved as ISO/IEC 646" – in PDF format [3]. This is similar to how HTML5’s UNICODE link refers to a homepage at unicode.org, from which one must navigate oneself to the relevant version. By contrast, HTML5's current reference is the 103 pages long plain text version of RFC1345 [1], which only at page 47 has 18 lines about ASCII - including an ASCII table, some aliases for the 'ASCII' name plus references (but no links) to real ASCII specs, including the 'pay-walled' ANSI_X3.4-1968 and 3rd edition of ECMA-6 [&alias ISO_646.irv:1991]. Readers will have problems seeing in what way RFC1345 is relevant, and in what way it (including the other 102 pages) is not. DETAILS Replace the reference to [1] with a reference to [2]. IMPACT Positive Effects * the ECMA-6 homepage gives free access to a PDF with ECMA-6. * the ECMA-6 homepage explains briefly what it is and how it is relevant, presenting ECMA-6 as parallel to ISO/IEC 646. * the ECMA-6 spec is a self contained reference, independent from other (non-online) resources. * a homepage link instead of big file link has advantages: - fast access - forward looking, in case of standard updates Negative Effects * none CONFORMANCE CLASSES CHANGES None RISKS None REFERENCES [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1345.txt [2] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-006.htm
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