Re: [art] [Errata Held for Document Update] RFC7595 (7011)

I fully concur with Roy, I was thinking the same when I saw this.

Regards,   Martin.

On 2022-08-11 09:51, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> This should have been rejected. A generic syntax is an overall syntax (as in not
> specific to any scheme and therefore outside the scope of scheme definitions).
> Treating this as a technical errata, rather than an editorial choice of which
> equivalent synonym an author chooses to describe the technology, is just
> begging for some fool to insist that a generic syntax does not place
> technical constraints on the overall syntax (which it obviously does).
> 
> ....Roy
> 
> 
>> On Aug 10, 2022, at 2:02 PM, RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org> wrote:
>>
>> The following errata report has been held for document update
>> for RFC7595, "Guidelines and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes".
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>> You may review the report below and at:
>> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid7011
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>> Status: Held for Document Update
>> Type: Technical
>>
>> Reported by: Timothy McSweeney <tim@dropnumber.com>
>> Date Reported: 2022-07-01
>> Held by: Murray Kucherawy (IESG)
>>
>> Section: 3
>>
>> Original Text
>> -------------
>> [RFC3986] defines the overall syntax for URIs as:
>>
>>                URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]
>>
>>    A scheme definition cannot override the overall syntax for URIs.
>>
>> Corrected Text
>> --------------
>> [RFC3986] defines the generic syntax for URIs as:
>>
>>                URI = scheme ":" hier-part [ "?" query ] [ "#" fragment ]
>>
>>    A scheme definition cannot override the generic syntax for URIs.
>>
>> Notes
>> -----
>> There are two instances here where [RFC3986] is incorrectly referenced by using the word 'overall' and should instead be replaced with the term 'generic' as it is uses the identical example from https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>> RFC7595 (draft-ietf-appsawg-uri-scheme-reg-06)
>> --------------------------------------
>> Title               : Guidelines and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes
>> Publication Date    : June 2015
>> Author(s)           : D. Thaler, Ed., T. Hansen, T. Hardie
>> Category            : BEST CURRENT PRACTICE
>> Source              : ART Area General Application Working Group
>> Area                : Applications and Real-Time
>> Stream              : IETF
>> Verifying Party     : IESG
>>
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