Thanks Éric.

L.


> On 1 Jun 2022, at 16:07, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> And John is an actual English speaker, so, I trust him on this one __
> 
> -éric
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luigi Iannone <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, 1 June 2022 at 16:03
> To: John Scudder <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eric Vyncke <[email protected]>, The IESG <[email protected]>, 
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
> <[email protected]>, Padma Pillay-Esnault <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Éric Vyncke's No Objection on draft-ietf-lisp-6834bis-11: (with 
> COMMENT)
> 
>    Hi John,
> 
>> On 1 Jun 2022, at 15:55, John Scudder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I hate to disagree, but:
>> 
>>> On May 31, 2022, at 3:54 AM, Éric Vyncke via Datatracker <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> s/MUST consist in an increment by one the older/MUST consist in an 
>>> increment by
>>> one of the older/ ? Moreover, 'increment' is usually understood as 'add 1' 
>>> so
>>> no need to add 'by one' in the sentence
>> 
>> I think “by one” was more unambiguous even the sentence doesn’t scan as 
>> prettily. Although in computing it’s true that “increment” without any 
>> qualification does generally imply one, isn’t it even better to be explicit? 
>> Certainly the dictionary definition of “increment” doesn’t include “by one”. 
>> In this particular case, the “by one” is important since it has implications 
>> on how fast the (very small) version number space could wrap.
>> 
>> My own preference would be to re-introduce “by one” or similar, when/if 
>> doing another version.
> 
>    Is just a “when” ;-) there will be another revision for sure 
> 
>    As for your comment, I understand your point, it does not harm to be 
> “pedantic” and keep the “by one”.
> 
>    Thanks 
> 
>    Ciao
> 
>    L.
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> $0.02,
>> 
>> —John
> 
> 

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