Re: Working Group Last Call: draft-ietf-sieve-3431bis-01.txt (relational test)

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Michael Haardt wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:28:20AM +0100, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
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>>I would like to draw your attention to the following draft:
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>><http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-sieve-3431bis-01.txt>
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>>A two week working group last call of this document starts today on 
>>September 6th 2005 and ends on Tuesday, September 20th 2005 at 6 pm EST.
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>>Please review this document and send issues to the list or direct to the 
>>author(s).
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>I have no serious issues, but some minor ones:
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>I miss a list of changes.  Aren't there any?
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Only explanation what things like "gt", "eq", etc. mean

>I miss a table of contents, too.
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I believe RFC editor can address this, once the document is approved.

>I miss a section "Interaction with Other Sieve Actions".  Obviously,
>"relational" is only incompatible with comparators that return no
>sort information.  There are no incompatibilities with any actions
>and implicit keep is not touched, but I would prefer not having to
>read that between the lines.
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>Section 2:
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>   The capability string associated with extension defined in this
>   document is "relational".
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>I think this does not belong to "Conventions used in this document",
>but to its own section "Capability Identifier".
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>Section 4.1:
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>   The VALUE match type may be used with any comparator which returns
>   sort information.
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>And which comparator of the base language does that? All, I guess,
>but I miss reading that.
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"relational" draft is not the place for listing such comparators. There 
is a separate document (currently draft-newman-i18n-comparator-05.txt) 
that defines the comparator registry.