The IESG wrote: > <draft-ietf-ldapbis-strprep-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard Mostly editorial nits: | presented and stored values are first prepared for comparison | and so that a character-by-character comparison yields the | "correct" result. s/and// (?) | The following six-step process SHALL be applied to each | presented and attribute value in preparation for character | string matching rule evaluation. s/and// (?) | The input string is be normalized to Unicode Form KC | (compatibility composed) as described in [UAX15]. s/is be/is/ Maybe s/KC/NFKC/ as used in 3454. Or better s/Form KC/NFKC/g (more than one occurence). | Characters which, per Section 5.8 of [Stringprep], change | display properties or are deprecated are prohibited. s/[Stringprep]/[RFC3454]/g Something with the indentation in appendices A and B is odd. | Otherwise, if the string being prepared is an initial, any, | or final substring, then the output string is exactly one | SPACE character, else the output string is exactly two | SPACEs. Apparently 'initial substring', 'any substring', and 'final substring' are terms here, and not simply the same as any substring, also used later in appendix B: | That is, if a prepared any substring matches a partition of | the attribute value, then an assertion constructed by | subdividing that substring into multiple substrings should | also match. How about quoting these terms: '"initial", "any", or "final substring"' in the first case, 'if a prepared "any substring" matches' in the second case (?) For an xml2rfc source that could be done with <spanx style="verb">any substring</spanx>. Actually only the unquoted "any" confused me, normally "any" should include initial and final. | All spaces are regarded as insignificant and are to be | removed. s/are to be// (?) More than one occurence. For the "Security Considerations" a note about mixing tables for different Unicode versions might help: RFC 3454 is 3.2, using an Unicode 5 table to figure out say "unassigned" might be a bad idea. | However, only leading and trailing (as well as multiple | consecutive spaces) of the string (as a whole) are | insignificant. s/consecutive spaces)/consecutive) spaces/ Bye, Frank _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf