--On Tuesday, 02 March, 2021 05:20 -0800 Dave Crocker <dcrocker@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I agree with whoever has mentioned it that "*octet* >> sequences" needs to be removed or replaced. I hope this has >> already happened. > > The concern was to switch from 'byte' to 'octet'. So octet is > what the draft now uses. Dave, I don't know whose concern was to make that particular switch and why, but my concern about either (and, I'm guessing, Martin's) is that almost all Unicode code points (those outside the ASCII range) require more than one octet to represent in any encoding scheme. For UTF-8, which the I-D requires, the number of octets is variable. So using "octet" as a unit of --well, much of anything--is, at best, confusing. john -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call
