Re: [iri] #69: Several issues in Introduction of 4395bis

On 6/6/12 4:00 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> Strictly speaking, UCS is not a character range (or, more precisely, a
>> character repertoire) but a coded characer set (and UCE-2/UCS-4 are
>> encoding forms). Therefore I suggest that the following is more accurate
>> and more consistent with RFC 6365:
>>
>>    [RFC3987] introduced IRIs by expanding the character repertoire
>>    allowed for URIs from ASCII to Unicode [UNICODE]; [RFC3987bis]
>>    updates that definition to match the current usage of IRIs.
> 
> I don't like starting a stence with a reference like that, rather spell
> out "RFC 3987 [RFC3987]" if you can't move things around, and I do not
> like "expanding the character repertoire allowed for" at all, the words
> do not go together like that. Could this just say this updates RFC 3987
> to reflect current usage?

I'll leave the wordsmithing to the document editors, but the first
clause is about the introduction of RFC 3987 and the second clause is
about the migration from RFC 3987 to rfc3987bis.

Peter

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Received on Wednesday, 6 June 2012 22:06:37 UTC