To help find a way out of this, I suggest that any passages in draft-4646bis (or draft-4645bis, if you find any) that are indisputably incorrect in any flavor of English be corrected, and all other editorial changes be dismissed.
That is, a passage like "if when" should be corrected, by removing either "if" or "when." But all occurrences of "different from/than/to" should be left as is. (Like Randy, I hate "different than," but reasonable people do differ on this.) And we should not entertain any questions of awkwardness or redundancy at this point. We've had *years* to polish this draft. Look at any 10 arbitrarily selected RFCs from the past decade; the style, grammar, and usage in draft-4646bis is certainly up to the standards of those documents.
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Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14
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