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Re: [Jcardcal] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcal-09: (with COMMENT)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 24 March 2014 21:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Jcardcal] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcal-09: (with COMMENT)
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Hiya,

On 03/24/2014 09:10 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>> section 1: this is odd: "Extensions to the underlying
>> iCalendar specification must not lead to requiring an update
>> to jCal." How are you going to prevent that happening?  I
>> think the best you can do is point out how such an extension
>> could break jcal and recommend to not do that.
> 
> It's a lower-case "must not".  

Sure, I wasn't making a 2119 point though.

> What it's saying is that jCal is
> designed to accommodate extensions to iCalendar, without requiring
> changes to jCal.  It's not talking about changes that might show up in
> a new major iCalendar version... just changes that use the normal
> iCalendar extension mechanisms.

Yep. My comment is really that it'd be better to say
what to avoid doing in any future such RFCs instead of
just saying "You're not allowed to be naughty." But
just a comment, if you think its fine that's ok too.

S

> 
> Barry
>

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