Re: Typos in USEFOR

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <> =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Julien_=C9LIE?= <julien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Hi,

>Just a few remarks on USEFOR in case it is still time (AUTH48?) to
>take some of them into account.

OK, I have forwarded these to the editors.

>In 2.3:

>   User agents MUST meet the definition of MIME conformance in [RFC2049]
>   and MUST also support [RFC2231].  This level of MIME conformance
>   provides support for internationalization and multimedia in message
>   bodies ([RFC2045], [RFC2046], [RFC2231]), and support for
>   internationalization of header fields ([RFC2047], [RFC2231]).  Note
>   that [Errata] currently exist for [RFC2046] and [RFC2231].

>RFC 2045 and 2047 also have errata.  Shouldn't it be mentioned?
>(Or no mention of errata at all?  It is not said elsewhere in the document.)

I think you are right.

>In 3:

>    Each of these header fields may occur at most once in a news article.

>What should we understand?  That they SHOULD NOT appear more than once?
>Why isn't it said in a less ambiguous way?

It needs a MUST NOT.

>Still in 3:

>   Control
>   Distribution
>   Followup-To
>   Newsgroups
>   Lines
>   Path
>   Supersedes
>   Xref

>Newsgroups after Lines, in alphabetical order.

Already fixed by the RFE-Editor.

>In 3.1.3:

>      NOTE: The length restriction ensures that systems that accept
>      message identifiers as a parameter when referencing an article
>      (e.g.  [RFC3977]) can rely on a bounded length.

>Only one space after "e.g." here.

Already fixed by the RFE-Editor (and also a comma inserted, and likewise
many tiny edits to fit her "house style".

>Still in 3.1.3:

>   The msg-id MUST NOT be more than 250 octets in length.

>   Observe that msg-id includes the < and >.

>Shouldn't it be <msg-id>?  (or message-ID?)

It should be <msg-id>

>Still in 3.1.3:

>   o  even though commonly derived from <domain>s, <id-rights>s are
>      case-sensitive (and thus, once created, are not to be altered
>      during subsequent transmission or copying)

>A final dot is missing.
>Incidentally, I think that lists should be homogenized in the document
>(sometimes they end with ".", sometimes with ",", sometimes with nothing).

Yep.

>In 3.2.4:

>   The <dist-name>s "world" and "local" are reserved. "world" indicates
>   [...]

>The whole section is impacted.  Full dots are not followed by two spaces.

A misfeature of nroff, I think.

>In 3.2.6:

>   The Followup-To header field specifies to which newsgroup(s) the
>   poster has requested that followups are to be posted.

>Shouldn't it be "the poster has requested that followups should be posted"?
>Or with the subjunctive "the poster has requested that followups be posted"?

Not so sure.

>-- 
>Julien ÉLIE

>« Mais dis à ton ami qu'il cesse de jeter notre argent par les écoutilles ! » (Astérix) 



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