[Ltru] issue #1059 Horizontal whitespace

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn at mindspring.com>; "LTRU Working Group" <ltru at ietf.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 3:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Horizontal whitespace (was Re: [Ltru] Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ltru-initial-01.txt)
>

> I agree with the goal. I'd suggest explaining in a bit more detail, however:
>
>     Headers, footers, line breaks, and other
>    vertical whitespace introduced by the RFC process are not
>    significant.  Leading horizontal whitespace indicates a continued
>    line in the record-jar format, and must not be deleted.=>
>
> In the IANA registry that is produced from this document in the record-jar
> format, leading horizontal whitespace is significant, and indicates a
> continued line. However, in this document, headers, footers, line breaks,
> and other whitespace is introduced by the RFC process. To correctly
> interpret the data in this document, these extraneous characters must be
> disregarded. In particular, a number of horizontal whitespace characters
> that is greater than what is found on the 'File-Date' line indicates a
> continued line in the record-jar format, and must not be deleted.
...

As a contributor who has edited RFCs establishing registries, and who has
chaired WGs producing such RFCs, I feel quite confident in saying that this
is complete and total over-kill.  We don't do this for ABNF, MIB modules,
ASN.1 modules, or any of the other machine-parseable stuff that finds
itself published in RFCs.  The folks at IANA have repeatedly proven that
they know enough to strip headers, footers, etc.  I could support Doug's
original proposal because it addressed a not-100%-obvious potential problem,
but I can't support this amended proposal.  If the rest of the WG supports
it, I won't oppose it, but I think the amended proposal would set a bad precedent.

Randy




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