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Re: [Tools-discuss] [rfc-i] what metric replaces page-count?

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Tue, 13 April 2021 16:09 UTC

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Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
    > But Michael was not asking about citations.  He was asking for a
    > complexity metric.

Thank you.

    > 8.   Basic encoding rules
    > ...
    > 8.19 Encoding of an object identifier value

    > 8.19.1 The encoding of an object identifier value shall be primitive.

I personally find this presentation ugly and very disruptive to reading.
If the size of the "8.19.1" could diminish such that it was significantly
smaller, than I'd be happy.  That might be a matter of some extra CSS.
(When CSS was invented, I was told we were supposed to be able to cascade
local CSS, but in practice, that has always been difficult)

    > This is almost like having paragraph numbering as a sort of sub-section
    > numbering, except that you can see that's not quite the rule (e.g.,
    > x.690 section 8.19.2 has two paragraphs).  But I would be fine with that
    > too.

So, in your view, the size metric would then be the number of sections.
{I do not support revisiting the decision}

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