RE: [Techspec] Validation of formal languages

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Thu, 25 May 2006 17:14 UTC

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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:00:40 -0700
To: "Stephen Hayes (TX/EUS)" <stephen.hayes@ericsson.com>, techspec@ietf.org
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Subject: RE: [Techspec] Validation of formal languages
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At 11:38 PM -0500 5/24/06, Stephen Hayes (TX/EUS) wrote:
>  > This section might also add a requirement that the IETF technical
>>  publisher should not change any examples (changing words,
>>  reformatting with line breaks, and so on) without explicitly alerting
>>  the document authors. Some formal languages are quite sensitive to
>>  byte counts and line breaks.
>
>In general, I think the publisher should work with the authors for 
>any changes required to formal language sections.

Right. That is obvious enough to be a requirement, it seems.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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