Re: [xml2rfc-dev] Unicode box-drawing for a new --table-borders value?

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

On 2021-02-01, at 22:03, Julian Reschke <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> It sounds to me like you're saying the existing drafts i've been working
>> on (like [0]) are somehow skirting the IETF consensus on what makes a
>> legitimate document by "abusing" the artwork mechanism.
> 
> IMHO: non-ASCII characters in artwork were allowed to express examples
> where non-ASCII characters are *required*. This does not seem to be the
> case here. See the rules in
> <https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc7997.html#n-rules-for-the-use-of-non-ascii-characters>.
> 
> (These are not my rules, and I might not even support them, but these
> are the rules currently).

One of the qualifications for a German professor is that you need to be able to make up a valid argument for anything, in particular when talking to university administration (which is trained in making up arguments *against* anything).

In this case, of course, RFC 7997 does support this usage as it makes an allowance for the rules of a programming language [1].  The author clearly has defined a new (visual) programming language here and uses that in his artwork.

Grüße, Carsten

[1]: 3.6 code components:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7997#section-3.6