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Re: names of RFC references (was: models-09 comments)
Kurt D. Zeilenga writes:
>At 09:39 AM 1/7/2004, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>
>> It would be nice if the LDAPbis documents had more or less
>> the same reference names for the same documents, at least
>> for references to LDAPbis documents.
>
> Yes. I hope we can leave it to the Editors to determine
> exactly what LDAPBIS style is.
Yes, I'd have posted this to the ietf-ldapbis-editors mailinglist if it
existed:-)
>> I'll post a list of differences between reference names is
>> anyone is interested.
>
> Pointing out differences in style (where it matters) is
> useful.
I don't know what of this matters, but:
Reference name styles:
[BCP64bis], [LDAPDN], [LDAPURL], [Models], [Roadmap], [Schema],
[Strprep] use document numbers: [RFC2234], [X.690].
[Protocol] uses descriptive names: [ABNF], [BER].
[AuthMeth] prefers document numbers, but also has [ABNF] and [UTF-8].
[Filters] uses document numbers for RFCs, but also has [ASN.1].
[Syntaxes] uses descriptive names, except it also needs names like
[BCP64], [RFC2256] for older documents.
Nobody call [X.500], [T.50] & co anything interesting:-)
[Syntaxes] and partly [Schema] use uppercased descriptive names
for internet-drafts and RFCs. The other documents do not.
Name conflict:
[Filters] calls X.690 '[ASN.1]', while [Protocol] and [Syntaxes] call
X.680 '[ASN.1]'. That is confusing. I suggest [Filters] calls X.690
[BER], as [Protocol] and [Syntaxes] do.
URL styles:
[LDAPDN] uses the approximate URL <http://www.iana.org/...>.
[BCP64bis] only refers to the web site <http://www.iana.org/> for the
registry (outside a reference). URLs in other places, including IANA
URLs, are complete.
Other details:
The [UTF-8] or [UTF8] reference is outdated in many drafts.
It is now an RFC, not an internet-draft:
Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646",
STD 63 and RFC 3629, November 2003.
Reference descriptions in [LDAPURL], [Filters] and partly [AuthMeth]
are not indented out from the reference names, which makes searching
for a reference slower.
Some reference names are also descriptive words in the text, which
will be lost if the reference is renamed. E.g. the phrases '[UTF-8]
encoded' in [AuthMeth] and '[TLS]-protected' in [Protocol]. I'll
scan for more if you are interested.
The reference name [BCP64bis] will have to be renamed, since the
name implies an unfinished document. Hopefully it will be finished
someday:-)
--
Hallvard