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Graham Klyne scripsit:
> On 22/10/2012 23:35, Ian Hickson wrote:
> >Consensus isn't a value I hold highly,
>
> !
Just call him Frank Sinatra.
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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them
RFCs) in a machine-understandable
fashion.
I would add one sentence to explain that length is indeed used as
a weak but cheaply calculated hash function, thus justifying its
grouping with MD5.
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was included in the I-D to
> allow the special case of "no tag."
AFAIK, ASN.1 does not allow sizes like (0, 2..60). I wouldn't even
bother with this change.
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e heuristic all by themselves.
The new draft talks about scripts, but the existing registered tags
talk about scripts too.
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CP at all, it's because we are not making the algorithm
normative, but just saying "The most commonly used algorithm is".
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JFC (Jefsey) Morfin scripsit:
> Dear John,
> thank you to acknowledge that the proposed draft "_impose_" something !
> It therefore do not report on an existing practice.
> thank you to acknowledge that the proposed draft even "_limits_" the
> current practice !
> thank you to explain that the de
e compatibility of ordering with 3066 is important.
RFC 3066 already supports tags that don't fit.
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it is only a heuristic (or examination of the IANA registry,
which is not machine-parseable) that tells the meaning of the second
subtag the existing registered tag sr-Latn. In the draft, its meaning
is unambiguously specified a priori.
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t tags match if they are (case-insensitively)
identical, which is already made, we don't believe that any of these
other things can be normatively enunciated.
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ligibility, then the reverse is true.
Absolutely, which is why the fallback rule isn't and can't be a
protocol-level transaction or (a fortiori) an interop issue. It's
simply a useful default in many circumstances.
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proposition.
Construe, construe! The entities mentioned in your quotation are the
IAB and the IESG.
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r what is valid are based on
> protocol considerations, not on a Quixotic quest for "stability"
> of nations.
The draft does not attempt to stabilize countries, only the codes
applied to them. ISO 3166, as has been amply demonstrated, does not
and cannot do so, since it codes fo
le appears nowhere in 1766 or
>3066.
I stated it (again) as the truth, not a rule; but I concede that it is
not the truth.
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Be yourself. Especially do not feign a working knowledge of RDF where
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
> Now, it may be the case that all _registered_ tags have avoided the use of
> non-country code two letter codes in the third and later position. But this is
> 100% irrelevant.
If you say so.
> The point is that conformant code implementing RFC 3066 is
> broken if it
rfect before as well.
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vious, but I see nothing in RFC
3066 that > qualifies as a description of a matching algorithm.
Section 2.5 (2.4.1 in the draft) states the matching rule in a succinct
fashion. Everything in 2.4.2 is a non-normative elaboration of this.
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ft.
> - our work was fully supported and the idea of a rigid language
> description tag not accepted by any correspondents so far.
RFC 3066 language tags are in wide use.
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though the application of the tag is different from the usual
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1766 matching (and have in fact done so for widely deployed software), I
> haven't a clue how to handle this new draft competently in regards to
> matching.
The draft describes only the RFC 1766 (3066) algorithm, without excluding
other algorithms to be defined later.
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word appears in dictionaries, whereas eigenevent.com is
ruled out because it "mixes" English and German?
Forbidding the mixing of scripts is another matter, although in fact
some languages are written using more than one (Unicode) script.
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for the record, have you ever been given cause to take into
account a hard limit in the length of language tags?
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ly that they will be gratuitously changed, because
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hat correspondence simply because
> a few people are piqued that international agreement has been
> reached to change a few 2-letter codes.
Not much of an international agreement, really.
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one it myself, and in implementation, not merely in discussion.
Fortunately, the evidence is now buried.
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Peter Constable scripsit:
> My suggestions, then, in response to Bruce Lilley's comments are:
I heartily support all of this, despite the extra burden it imposes
on our esteemed editors, and hope that none of it is in any way
controversial.
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uthentic definition and the other a mere aide-memoire.
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Bruce Lilly scripsit:
> Moreover, the point is that countries do change, and that use
> of country codes (as provided for in RFC 3066 and in the
> proposed draft) carries with it the inherent instability
> which is characteristic of politics. A quest for "stability"
> of countries seems Quixotic
sh and French, but
no other language, is essential.
> ABNF from the draft:
You're technically right, but your underlying claim (that RFC 3066 tags are
bounded in length) is false, as has been shown, and the "grandfathered"
production is only used to match certain existing
tions are equal.
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ot;direct"
> or "raw" than ACE.
That's only true if you take the position that there are no native/direct/raw
encodings of Unicode.
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