- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:35:31 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > On 03.03.2010 18:16, Edward O'Connor wrote: >> >> Hi Julian, >> >>> 2. Negative Effects >>> >>> None. >> >> I think you've missed at least one negative effect: as far as I can >> tell, ANSI.X3-4.1986 isn't freely available and linkable online. At >> least, I haven't been able to find a copy that the spec could link to. > > - RFC 1345 does not define ASCII, and it's not really helpful in explaining > what ASCII is. If you're looking for a linkable resource that actually is > helpful, how about <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII>? > > - That being said, I think a reference to ISO/IEC 646 would be acceptable as > well; this one is re-published by ECMA as ECMA-006, which is available > online > (<http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-006.htm>) I assume that W3C has a policy of that all W3C recommendations has to be freely available. Thus I don't think having normative dependencies on non-free specifications could be allowed. However if we can normatively depend on the ECMA spec then that seems like a good solution. / Jonas
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