Re: [imapext] AD review of draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-06

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

One thing I'd like to follow up on:

> Overall, this document could use a going-over for proper English --
> use of articles, punctuation, that sort of thing.  The RFC Editor will
> do that, of course, but it'd be good for someone from the working
> group to do it, to make sure that the meaning remains correct.
> There's a lot of editing needed here.

On thinking about this more and talking it over with SM...
There are two important reasons we might ask a native English speaker
to go over a document for this:
1. If the English usage is sufficiently unclear that we're concerned
that it couldn't get properly reviewed.  This is NOT the case with
this document.
2. If the editing would be sufficiently extensive that we're concerned
that when the RFC Editor makes the changes, subtle changes to the
meaning might happen, and they might go unnoticed.  This is what I'm
concerned about.

Given that (1) is not a concern, we think we can let this point go,
and just make sure we re-review carefully during the AUTH48 stage
(after the RFC Editor has done their work).  I'm sure the authors will
do that, and SM and I will also.  Alexey has also volunteered to check
it during AUTH48 (thanks, Alexey).  I think that's a good set of
reviewers, and I think we'll be OK.

Barry