Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-imapext-sort (INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSIONS) to Proposed Standard

Mark Crispin <mrc@Washington.EDU> Tue, 04 March 2008 16:44 UTC

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Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:27:16 -0800
From: Mark Crispin <mrc@Washington.EDU>
To: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-imapext-sort (INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSIONS) to Proposed Standard
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I agree and will/have address[ed] these in AUTH48.

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> The IESG wrote:
>
>> The IESG is considering the following document again now that important 
>> dependencies are ready:
>> 
>> - 'INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSIONS'
>>   <draft-ietf-imapext-sort-19.txt> as a Proposed Standard
>> 
> Hi Mark,
> I've just reread section 7 of -19 and found some relatively minor things that 
> need fixing:
>
>> 7. Internationalization Considerations
>>
>>     As stated in the introduction, the server SHOULD support the
>>     [IMAP-I18N] COMPARATOR extension and follow its rules to perform
>>     collations in the SORT and THREAD extensions.
>
> As per your recent suggestion in the IMAPEXT WG, the COMPARATOR extension was 
> renamed to I18NLEVEL=2.
> The last sentence in section 1 needs to be updated as well.
>
>>     If the server does not support COMPARATOR, strings MUST be collated
>>     according to the i;unicode-casemap collation described in
>>     [UNICASEMAP].
>
> I think you also mean that support for at least I18NLEVEL=1 is REQUIREd.
>
>>     As described in [IMAP-I18N], strings in charsets other than US-ASCII
>>     and UTF-8 MUST be converted to UTF-8 and compared in ascending order
>>     according to the selected or active collation algorithm.  If the
>>     server does not support the [IMAP-I18N] COMPARATOR extension, the
>>     collation algorithm used is the "en;ascii-casemap" collation
>>     described in [COMPARATOR].
>
> The last sentence contradict the second paragraph quoted above. I think you 
> forgot to delete it in -19.
> If for some reason you want to keep it, then please change "en;ascii-casemap" 
> to "i;ascii-casemap", as "en;ascii-casemap" is invalid.
>
> I can recommend some replacement text, if you want.
>
>

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