Tim Bray wrote:
> 
> I'm getting increasingly grumpy and "just fail" is looking better and 
> better.  The current normative text, "The element's content MUST be  an
> IRI", is clear and simple and supported by other well-understood 
> normative text, supported by lots of interoperable software, that  make
> the meanings of "element", "content", and "IRI" not really open  to
> intelligent dispute.  I claim that text enjoyed strong, not rough, 
> consensus support from the WG.

I believe that the term "content" is open to intelligent dispute.
Apparently the authors of RFC3470/BCP70 believe so too.

I won't dispute your read on the consensus of the working group, but I
would like to request that *SOME* language be present in the spec that
makes this clear.

- Sam Ruby

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