2012/1/1 Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@xxxxxxx>: > * Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: >>I'd like to seek consensus on separating the semantics of link >>relation for separate disclosure and a list thereof, correspondingly >>defining two link relations - 'disclosure' and 'disclosure-list'. You >>may see my edits made to Section 2 of the doc. below, which I'm >>proposing: >> >>2. 'disclosure' Link Relation Type >> >> Whenever the 'disclosure' relation is defined, the target IRI >> [RFC5988] MUST refer to a particular patent disclosure made with >> respect to the material being referenced by context IRI. >> >>3. 'disclosure-list' Link Relation Type >> >> Whenever the 'disclosure' relation is defined, the target IRI MUST >> designate a list of patent disclosures made with respect to the >> material being referenced by context IRI. >> >>As the doc. is in Last Call now, in order not to initiate a new one, >>please comment on these changes before January 6, so that I could know >>which version I should submit for IESG evaluation. > > I do not think you should (be able to) make such a change without a new > Last Call, and I disagree with the separation. Reasons include that it's > unclear which relation you use if you have one disclosure where many > patents are disclosed; would that be "disclosure" because it's just one > disclosure, or would it be a "disclosure-list" because many patents are > disclosed? 'disclosure', because the semantics concern the patent disclosure, not the patent. > On the German Wikipedia people are even used to flamewars > concerning List articles that have no or just one item, where some ar- > gue that you need at least two items to have a list. In this sense you > could probably always use 'disclosure-list' in place of 'disclosure' if > you think empty and single item lists are meaningful concepts. A list should be considered to be a list even if it is empty or has one entry, so we can use 'disclosure-list' here. Mykyta Yevstifeyev > -- > Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@xxxxxxxxxxxx · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de > Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de > 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf