Hi,
Generally I like the new look of this draft and it really is a policy document,
not a tech spec.
A couple of minor comments:
"This document ... updates the RFC Style Guide [RFC7322]."
It isn't stated what the specific changes to RFC 7322 are. RFC 7322 doesn't
mention ASCII or UTF-8.
(It does cite BCP 18/RFC 2277.) Isn't this actually a case of "extends" rather than
"updates"?
"As stated in the RFC Style Guide [RFC7322], the language of the RFC Series is
English."
Should we state the policy that when there are regional variations in spelling, a given RFC should
be internally consistent? ("Colour" vs "Color", for example.) Or does that
belong elsewhere?
Regards/Ngā mihi
Brian Carpenter
On 14-Sep-25 07:05, Paul Hoffman wrote:
Greetings again. Now that the RSWG has settled on how to describe policies that
the RPC can follow, it's time to look again a the rest of the RFC 799x series.
The WG adopted draft-rswg-rfc7997bis, but stopped work when there was too much
contention about which things were rules, which were policies, and which were
merely suggestions.
draft-rswg-rfc7997bis-04 deals with this by making the document a positive
statement of policy instead of a set of historical diffs that have been
overcome by events. It is based on the publication of many RFCs that use
Unicode freely and appropriately.
If you dislike any of the text in the new draft, by all means please send
suggested new text. It would be great if the WG can finish this work and then
move on to the rest of the 799x series.
--Paul Hoffman
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