Re: Gen-ART and OPS-Dir review of draft-ietf-json-text-sequence-09

Pete Resnick <presnick@qti.qualcomm.com> Sun, 07 December 2014 16:41 UTC

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On 12/5/14 4:38 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
> Hi, David.  One note on your review:
>
>    
>> idnits didn't like the reference to RFC 20 for ASCII:
>>
>>    ** Downref: Normative reference to an Unknown state RFC: RFC   20
>>
>> RFC 5234 (ABNF) uses this, which looks like a better reference:
>>
>>     [US-ASCII]  American National Standards Institute, "Coded Character
>>                 Set -- 7-bit American Standard Code for Information
>>                 Interchange", ANSI X3.4, 1986.
>>      
> Except that (1) many IETF documents do use RFC 20 and (2) the RFC 20
> reference is not for ASCII: it's for RS, the Record Separator
> character, which is explained in RFC 20, Section 5.2.
>    

And as per BCP97, RFC 3967, section 3, this downref was specifically 
called out in the Last Call for this document.

pr

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