Re: [Last-Call] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-jmap-quotas-06

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Thomas, thank you for your review. I have entered a No Objection ballot for this document.

Authors, did you respond to Thomas' review privately? I can't find a public response.

Thanks,
Lars


> On Nov 10, 2022, at 16:58, Thomas Fossati via Datatracker <noreply@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Reviewer: Thomas Fossati
> Review result: Ready with Issues
> 
> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area
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> 
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> 
> Document: draft-ietf-jmap-quotas-??
> Reviewer: Thomas Fossati
> Review Date: 2022-11-10
> IETF LC End Date: 2022-11-19
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
> 
> 
> The document is generally clear, but at times the prose is a bit too
> terse -- and this is from someone who really appreciate terseness :-) I
> guess some of that can be fixed at the RFC Editor, but there are some
> other places (e.g., §2.1) that may need the author to slightly increase
> the precision.  (A JMAP expert is likely to have a completely different
> point of view on this. so I'm not going to insist.)
> I am flagging a few issues that should be easy to fix.
> 
> Major issues
> ------------
> 
> 1. In §2, there is no discussion about internationalisation of the
>   "description" property.  If this is to be rendered to human eyes,
>   there needs to be some way to establish the context in which the
>   string is to be consumed (charset, language, direction), and tie
>   that into the negotiation capabilities offered by the API
> 
> Minor issues
> ------------
> 
> 1. The list layout used in §2, §2.2 and §2.3 is a bit confusing.
>   Logically, this needs three "columns": name, type, description.
>   However, type is somewhat squashed between name and description.
>   Why not just reuse the presentation style from RFC8620?
> 
> 2. I find the name "resource type" a bit misleading.  If this represents
>   the unit of measure of the quota limits, why is it called "resource
>   type" and not, e.g., "limit unit"?
> 
> 3. The definition of "used" in §2 does not say which unit is used to
>   measure the quota usage, and therefore what things the UnsignedInt is
>   counting.
> 
> 4. In §2.2, the definition of updatedProperties seems wrong:
>   "If only the "used" Quota properties has changed since the old state,
>   this will be the list of properties that may have changed."
>   I have re-read it thrice but I am still unable to understand the
>   semantics of the property from just this description.
> 
> 
> Editorial suggestions
> ---------------------
> 
>   "allowing you to read and explain quota information."
> 
> s/you/a user/
> 
> Also, what does "read and explain quota information" mean exactly?
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "allowing a user to obtain details about a certain quota"
> 
> ---
> 
>   "Servers MUST support all properties specified for the new data types
>   defined in this document."
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "Servers that support the new data types defined in this document
>   MUST support all the properties specified for these data types.
> 
> ---
> 
>   "The same terminology is used in this document as in the core JMAP
>   specification."
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "This document reuses the terminology from the core JMAP
>   specification."
> 
> ---
> 
>   "In addition to the standard JSON data types"
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "In addition to the standard JMAP data types"
> 
> ---
> 
>   "The *Scope* is a String from an enumeration defined list of values,"
> 
> It's not clear to me what "enumeration defined list of value" means (the
> same applies to §1.4.2)
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "The *Scope* data type is used to represent the entities the Quota
>   applies to.  It is defined as a String with values from the following
>   set:"
> 
> ---
> 
>   "Applies for this account"
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "the Quota information apply to this account"
> 
> ---
> 
>   "A resource type is like an unit of measure for the quota usage."
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "A resource type acts as the unit of measure for the quota usage."
> 
> ---
> 
>   "It should respect the JMAP ID datatype defined in section 1.2 of
>   [RFC8620]"
> 
> I'd remove this as it looks redundant (§1.1 already says it).
> 
> ---
> 
>   "if we reach this limit."
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "if this limit is reached"
> 
> ---
> 
>   "It should be higher than the warnLimit and the softLimit."
> 
> I think this can be removed entirely. The definitions for warnLimit and
> softLimit are a more natural place where to establish the constraints.
> 
> ---
> 
>   "A list of all the data types values that are applying to this
>   quota."
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "A list of all the type names (e.g., Email, Calendar, etc.) to which
>   this quota applies"
> 
> ---
> 
>   "to separated data types"
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "to distinct data types"
> 
> ---
> 
>   "The ids argument may be null to fetch all at once."
> 
> Suggestion:
> 
>   "If the ids argument is null, then all Quota records are returned"
> 
> ---
> 
>   "Security and privacy considerations: this document, section 4."
> 
> It should be "section 3" instead
> 
> 
> 
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