Hi Dale,

> On 6 May 2014, at 19:53, [email protected] (Dale R. Worley) wrote:
> 
> 2014-04-28 14:59 GMT+02:00 Alexey Melnikov <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on
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>> Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments
>> you may receive.
>> 
>> Document: draft-ietf-salud-alert-info-urns-12.txt
>> Reviewer: Alexey Melnikov
>> Review Date: 27 April 2014
>> IETF LC End Date: 25 April 2014
>> IESG Telechat date: (if known) N/A
>> 
>> Summary: Ready with nits/questions.
>> 
>> 
>> Major issues:
>> None
>> 
>> Minor issues:
>> 
>> 13.  User Agent Behaviour
>> 
>>   The User Agent (UA) MUST produce a reasonable rendering regardless of
>>   the combination of URIs (of any schemes) in the Alert-Info header
>>   field.
>> 
>> This MUST is not well defined to be implementable. How can conformance or
>> violation of this requirement can be tested? I suggest you avoid using RFC
>> 2119 language here.
> 
> The authors agree and will change the MUST to "must".
> 
> Because we had another comment regarding this paragraph from our Area
> Director (Richard Barnes), we will add following text at the end of
> that paragraph:
> 
>    In particular, unless the containing message is a request and is
>    immediately rejected, the UA SHOULD provide some alert unless it is
>    explicitly instructed not to (for example, by Alert-Info URIs that
>    it understands, the presence of a Replaces or Joins header field,
>    local policy, or direction of the user).

I think the additional text is good.

>> Has this been submitted to the [email protected] mailing list for 2
>> weeks review? (as per RFC 3406)
> 
> The urn-nid review started 3 Oct 2013:
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/urn-nid/current/msg01218.html
> There were no comments.

Ok.

>> Nits/editorial comments:
>> 
>> "REQ-4: has been deleted.  To avoid confusion, the number will not be
>> reused".
>> 
>> I find this to be rather unusual. Are these requirements used in RFPs?
> 
> We did not want a renumbering of the requirements in order to avoid
> confusion when people sent comments on the requirements. It makes
> sense to renumber the requirements now, and we will do so.

Thank you.

>> In Section 7:
>> 
>> date              = [CC] YY [ "-" MM ["-" DD] ]
>> 
>> 
>> Is there a need for having 2 octet years? Are you trying to save some
>> bytes here at the expense of extra (albeit minor) complexity?
> 
> We believe it is valuable to allow just YY, but are willing remove it if
> necessary to pass the gen-art review.
> 
> Overall, we have strived to allow brevity in the date formats.
> Allowing CC to be optional changes the number of permitted date
> formats from 4 (including complete absence) to 7, but it only
> increases the number of distinct choices in code that processes dates
> from 3 to 4.  Given that CC can only be "20" for the next 86 years,
> and the general desirability of brevity, we think that it is as
> reasonable to make CC optional as it is to make MM and DD optional.

Ok. I don't really insist on this change, as long as you thought about this or 
if both are already implemented.

> Dale [for the authors of draft-ietf-salud-alert-info-urns]

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