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Re: [Ltru] Well-formed vs. regular (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ltru-4646bis-01.txt



Comments follow. Mostly I think I've fixed this in draft-02.

Mark Davis wrote:
I agree that the language needs a bit of cleanup, but not quite what you
suggestion.

I agree. "Well-formed" and "valid" have quite specific meaning. "Irregular" has the meaning Mark suggests.

The draft seems inconsistent in its use of "well-formed" and
"regular". We find:

>   grandfathered = langtag   ; well-formed grandfathered tags
>                 / irregular ; tags that are not well-formed

(I would say that irregular is the opposite of regular, not of
well-formed.)

Irregular grandfathered tags are well-formed by definition. They are irregular in terms of the langtag production. Changed the note to say:

'grandfathered tags that don't match langtag'


>   Some grandfathered tags are "well-formed" in that they match the
>   'langtag' production in Figure 1.

And, a few lines later:

>   An implementation that claims to check for well-formed language tags
>   MUST:
>
>   o  Check that the tag and all of its subtags, including extension and
>      private use subtags, conform to the ABNF or that the tag is on the
>      list of grandfathered tags.

Fixed.

Addison

--
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

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