Comments on the WOFF Last Call

I note the following:

1.       The introduction has normative conformance requirements. This does not seem like the right place for such MUSTs.

2.       In the uniqueid element in the Metadata section, there is a note:" The id attribute of the uniqueid element, and of several further metadata elements defined below, is not required to conform to the rules for the XML type ID; its form is at the discretion of the font creator or vendor." It does not seem appropriate for a W3C spec to advocate violation of XML well formedness, especially since the uniqueid element is empty and could contain the unique ID as its value. Also, the conformance requirement summary for Metadata says, "The decompressed data MUST be well-formed XML."

3.       This is a nit, but it would be nice to state what the "content" of the element is and not just what the attributes are in the Metadata section.

4.       It seems to be a bad practice to have two places where conformance requirements are stated: in the normative text and in the Summary of Conformance Requirements, perhaps one of these should be described as informative and linked to the other.

Steve Zilles