Re: [babel] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-babel-applicability-06

Joel Halpern Direct <jmh.direct@joelhalpern.com> Sun, 07 July 2019 15:06 UTC

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To: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
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I do not consider this a show-stopper (I listed it as a nit / 
editorial), but at least the -07 text does not look better in this regard.

In my experience, if this were indeed mathematics, one would talk about 
a metric (how one measures) and a distance (the result of applying the 
measure.  E.g. Given two points in a metric space, with a distance 
between them of d, ...  Or more verbosely, given a space with a metric 
M, the distance between two points a and b is M(A, b).

Yours,
Joel

On 7/7/19 10:26 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Dear Joel,
> 
> Thank you very much for your kind review.
> 
>> Nits/editorial comments:
>>     In section 2.2, in talking about "metric M", if I have understood properly,
>>     I think it would be clearer if you referred to "metric value M".
> 
> This section has been expanded with human-readable text and a reference to
> a research paper, and should therefore now be easier to understand.
> I have, however, decided to follow the usual style of mathematical
> writing, and have therefore chosen not to follow your advice.  I hope that
> is okay.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> -- Juliusz
> 
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