My apologies for not getting back to this sooner. Comments below. Frank Ellermann wrote: > James M Snell wrote: > >> If another version of the draft is needed based on >> last-call comments, I can make the name change then. > > Leave it alone, please. Various tools have problems > with tracking changed names. Changing the name to > "RFC xxxx" at some point in time is IMO good enough. > Understood. > I don't find dir="" in the HTML 4.01 spec., why does > Atom need dir="" ? > I answered this is another note that I just sent. The main issue is one of inheritance. With Atom, it is possible to construct aggregate feeds from multiple sources, each of which may or may not explicity specify the base directionality. The dir="" option is provided to prevent children from inheriting the parent's directionality while preserving the lack of an explicitly set direction. - James > Frank > > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf