Re: [Ltru] Issue #43: AD #10 - section 5.1 vs 3.2 on File-Date value

[Kent Karlsson <kent.karlsson14 at comhem.se>]

Den 2009-06-09 09.04, skrev "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp>:

> > Something like "IANA MUST process only one batch per day, to avoid
> > File-Date ambiguity problems"?
> 
> I think this goes into the right direction, but "File-Date ambiguity
> problems" will raise questions with our readers.
> 
> What about:
> 
>  >>>>
> To make sure that updates to the registry, and different versions of the
> registry, can be distinguished by only checking their File-Date, IANA
> will publish at most one new version of the registry per day, and will
> make sure that the File-Dates in subsequent publications of the registry
> are strictly in temporal order.
>  >>>>

Then we would have a somewhat complicated rule for handling File-Date (as
in the current draft, which is already not followed) and *then* say "by the
way, that does not really work, we need to add this extra complication too".

As I mentioned before, I'd like something much more straightforward,
and indeed what seems to be the actual case already.


======OLD TEXT=================

Whenever an entry is created or modified in the registry, the 'File-Date'
record at the start of the registry is updated to reflect the most recent
modification date in the [RFC3339] (Klyne, G., Ed. and C. Newman, "Date and
Time on the Internet: Timestamps," July 2002.) "full-date" format: included
in any request to insert or modify records will be a new File-Date record
indicating the acceptance date of the record. This record is to be placed
first in the registry, replacing the existing File-Date record. In the event
that the File-Date record present in the registry has a later date than the
record being inserted or modified, then the latest (most recent) record will
be preserved. IANA should attempt to process multiple registration requests
in order according to the File-Date in the form, since one registration
could otherwise cause a more recent change to be overwritten.

======END OLD TEXT=============

======PROPOSED TEXT=================

Whenever an entry is created or modified in the registry, the 'File-Date'
record at the start of the registry is updated to reflect the most recent
modification date. The date format SHALL be the "full-date" format of
[RFC3339] (Klyne, G., ed. and C. Newman, "Date and Time on the Internet:
Timestamps", July 2002). The date SHALL be the date that version of the
registry was first published by IANA. There SHALL be at most one version of
the registry published in a day.

A File-Date record is also included in each request to IANA to insert or
modify records indicating the acceptance date of the records in the request.

======END PROPOSED TEXT=============

It appears that this is already current practice.

        /kent k