From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 14:19:16 CDT
I received private email from Frank Ellermann
<frank.ellermann@t-online.de> with various small typos. Most of these are
obvious and acceptable, but a few of them need guidabce from this list.
>- 34- (Phrase "(was: old)" normally stripped in "Re: new" subject)
> Subject: Re: Godwin's law (was: Film at 11)
It is not usual for followup agents to strip (was: ...) from the Subject
line AFAIAA, though I have no objection if some agent chooses to do it.
However, we took a decision a long time back that "was: " was an
English-language convention that was not to be subject to special
treatment (and the Examples reflect that view - maybe I will make that
clearer in the text). We made a special exception for "Re:" because it is
in Latin, and because some current software recognizes it for various
purposes. Does anyone else want to reopen this?
>- 39- (why is the "tail-entry" syntax different from "path-identity" ?)
> tail-entry = 1*( ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / ":" / "_" )
Mainly because it was different in Son-of-1036, where the tail-entry was a
local-part (but not the same definition of local-part as we now have from
RFC 2822).
In our present draft, the difference is that a genuine path-identity MUST
begin with an alphanumeric. I could be persuaded that this distinction is
a nonsense. Please could people look at the syntax in our draft and in
Son-of-1036 and tell me what to do? My inclination is to say
tail-entry = path-identity
>- 40- ("downstream from" is undefined, maybe use "peering with")
> 3. An arbitrary name believed to be unique and registered at least
> with all sites immediately downstream from the given site.
No, "peering with" implies a symetrical relationship. It is definitely the
downstream and not the upstream that is meant here. But I think the term
"downstream" is sufficiently well understood to stand on its own.
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