Re: Reviewing 3023-bis

John Cowan writes:

> Here's what I've found:
>
> 1) In Section 3, "In particular, for transports other than HTTP [RFC2616]
> or HTTPS (which uses a MIME-like mechanism).  the UTF-16 family, UCS-4,
> and UTF-32 are not allowed" has a misplaced period; it should be at the
> end and the existing period should be a comma.
> "allowed".

Overtaken.

> 2) In Section 3, the sentence beginning "Thus, although all XML
> processors" says "(except for HTTP)", but should say "(except for HTTP,
> HTTPS, and other protocols if base64 transport encoding is in use)".
> This is spelled out later in the document.

Overtaken.

> 3) In Section 3, "Furthermore, such media types may allow UTF-8 or UTF-16
> only and prohibit other charsets" has a misplaced "only" which makes
> it unclear; it should read "Furthermore, such media types may forbid
> charsets other than UTF-8 (or other than UTF-8 or UTF-16)"

Reworded.

> 4) In Section 3.1, for "editting" read "editing".

Done (silently)

> 5) In Section 3.6 there is another problematic "only" and a bad comma: for
> "The charset parameter MUST only be used, when the charset is reliably
> known and agrees with the in-band XML encoding declaration" read "The
> charset parameter MUST NOT be used if the charset is not reliably known.
> If it is used, it MUST agree with the XML encoding declaration."

Overtaken -- this entire section significantly rewritten, see ...-04 to be
released shortly, please review that section again.

> 6) In Section 4, the sentence "Similarly, when converting from another
> encoding into "utf-16", the BOM MUST be added after conversion is
> complete" is incorrect; it should read, "Similarly, when converting
> from another encoding into "utf-16", either an appropriate encoding
> declaration MUST be added or modified, or a BOM MUST be added."

See my reply to Paul G. on this.

> 7) In Section 11, for "recipients of XML MIME entities may be a risk"
> read "recipients of XML MIME entities may be at risk".

Done.

> In the randomly chosen .sig below, for "report" read "RFC".  :-)

Heh.

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>         --Rufus T. Firefly on government reports

Thanks!

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