[rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others"
brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com (Brian E Carpenter) Sun, 17 June 2012 09:10 UTC
From: "brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com"
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:10:08 +0100
Subject: [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others"
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Trying to up-level this discussion yet again, I believe that we haven't yet either clearly distinguished the hypothetical "canonical" format from the hypothetical "archival" format, or clearly established the requirements for each of them. If the requirements came out to be identical, that would be excellent, but it seems unlikely to be the case. In the end, the canonical format may turn out to be an abstraction, and the real-world requirement is something that is functionally equivalent to the canonical format. By contrast, the archival format MUST [RFC2119] be some kind of physical analogue or digital representation that can be filed away in a library or museum. Down level again, draft-hoffman-rfcformat-canon-others-02 seems to assume that XML is a stable format, unlike HTML. I'm not so sure about that; we might have to regress another level and say that our format is defined in SGML (even if, in practice, it is based on a specific version of some dialect of SGML such as a current version of XML or HTML). Regards Brian Carpenter
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- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Paul Hoffman
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- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" John Levine
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Joe Touch
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Yoav Nir
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- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Paul Hoffman
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Brian E Carpenter
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Paul Hoffman
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" John Levine
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Brian E Carpenter
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Leonard Rosenthol
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Phillip Hallam-Baker
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Joe Touch
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Heather Flanagan RFC Series Editor
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- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Brian E Carpenter
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" Dave Crocker
- [rfc-i] New proposal for "canonical and others" "Martin J. Dürst"