Re: [Xml-sg-cmt] Proposed message to rfc-interest about <postal>

[John R Levine <[e-mail]>]

> After discussion on Monday I think that's no longer the direction we'd
> prefer. :-)
>
> John, your message looks good to me.

OK, will send it.

>
> Peter
>
> On 6/7/21 9:49 AM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> I believe we also said we'd permit <country/> as a sibling to <postal/> in
>> the schema, so that we later could deprecate and remove <postal/> entirely,
>> but still keep <country/>.
>>
>> 	Henrik
>>
>> On 2021-06-06 23:56, John R Levine wrote:
>>> Here's what I plan to send out, with bits borrowed from Peter:
>>>
>>> One of the changes to the xml v3 grammar since RFC 7991 is a new <postal>
>>> element with a set of subfields such as <street>, <region>, and <code>. To
>>> render addresses we use a python library that depends on an open source address
>>> database originally from Google.  While tracking down a rendering bug, we found
>>> that the rendering database is not actively maintained and has a long list of
>>> unresolved pull requests.  We don't know of any other source of rendering
>>> patterns.
>>>
>>> But we don't see a strong reason for readers to need the full postal address
>>> for RFC authors. Anecdotally, on rare occasions readers have used the postal
>>> address but (a) the email address is primary since <postal/> is optional and
>>> (b) readers likely have better ways to find contact information for RFC
>>> authors.
>>>
>>> The one part we care most about from <postal/> is <country/>.  This enables
>>> people to do things like gather statistics about where RFCs originate, such as
>>> https://www.arkko.com/tools/rfcstats/d-countrydistr.html
>>>
>>> Our proposal is to deprecate all of the <postal> elements other than the
>>> <country/> element.  Authors can include them if they want, but they won't be
>>> rendered and the RPC won't ask for them.  We think this leaves the useful bit
>>> of info while avoiding a lot of work for minimal benefit.
>>>
>>> If there are issues we've missed, please let us know.
>>>
>>> R's,
>>> John
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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