On 2015/03/03 06:53, Peter Saint-Andre - &yet wrote:
On 3/2/15 12:20 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
--On Monday, March 02, 2015 09:21 -0700 Peter Saint-Andre - &yet
<[email protected]> wrote:
We had some discussion months ago (IIRC occasioned by comments
from John Klensin) about citing a particular version when
necessary (e.g., 3.2 or 6.3 or 7.0) but otherwise having a
generic pointer to the Unicode Standard when we're talking
about the technology in general, rather than a particular
version.
This is of course exactly the right thing to do. W3C does the same, and
it's even called out in the Character Model spec (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#C063).
I have heard back from the RFC Editor and they note that several recent
RFCs use this as a citation:
[UNICODE] The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard",
<http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/>.
I think that works fine in most instances.
Yes indeed.
I do have a question about how to handle pointers to particular
chapters, such as:
using Unicode Default Case Folding as defined in Chapter 3
of the Unicode Standard [UNICODE]
As John notes, chapter numbers might change. If we want to provide a
pointer to a particular chapter, we could modify such text like so:
using Unicode Default Case Folding as defined in the Unicode
Standard [UNICODE] (at the time of this writing, the algorithm
is specified in Chapter 3 of [UNICODE7.0])
However, I'm not sure if we really need to point to a particular chapter
in a particular version.
Yes. If we do, I suggest two things:
- Make the section number more specific, if possible (in the case at
hand, it would be section 3.13).
- Make the text shorter, if possible:
using Unicode Default Case Folding as defined in the Unicode
Standard [UNICODE] (e.g. Chapter 3.13 of [UNICODE7.0])
But in many cases, it is necessary to look at more than one chapter, so
it may be better to not give just one exact pointer.
Regards, Martin.
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