Subject: Re: Review of draft-ietf-idnabis-tables

From: Patrik Fältström <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:46:08 +0100

This is taken care of in upcoming version (-08) of the document.

   Patrik

On 17 okt 2009, at 17.50, Bernard Aboba wrote:

> I reviewed draft-ietf-idnabis-tables-07.    My comments are enclosed below. 
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> Technical
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> Section 5.1
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>   IANA is to keep a list of the derived property for the versions of
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>   Unicode that is released after (and including) version 5.1.  The
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>   derived property value is to be calculated according to the
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>   specifications in sections Section 2 and Section 3 and not by copying
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>   the non-normative table found in Appendix B.  
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> [BA] This seems to imply that IANA will do the calculation itself,  rather
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> Than just registering the results of a calculation made by someone else.  
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> Is that correct? 
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> Editorial
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> Section 1
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>  For example, a
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>   character can have its Unicode General_Category value change from So
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>   to Sm, or from Lo to Ll, without affecting the algorithm results.
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>   Moreover, even if such changes were to result, the BackwardCompatible
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>   list (Section 2.7) can be adjusted to ensure the stability of the
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>   results.
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> [BA] Lo and L1 are not defined until the next section.  Would it make sense
> to define these terms earlier on? 
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>   Some code points need to be allowed in exceptional circumstances, but
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>   should be excluded in all other cases; these rules are also described
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>   in other documents.  The most notable of these are the the Join
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> [BA] "the the" -> "the"
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> Section 5.1
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>      in sections Section 2 and Section 3
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> [BA] Should this be "Sections 2 and 3"?
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