Tony Finch <dot(_at_)dotat(_dot_)at> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, John Leslie wrote:
Tony Finch <dot(_at_)dotat(_dot_)at> wrote:
[ mid-conversation change of mailing list ]
It's hard to guess the context here...
See the References: and In-Reply-To: header fields for links to the
context. In any case, it isn't relevant to the poor readability of the CSA
specification.
I'll take your word on relevance...
I agree, but I haven't succeeded with my suggested improvements to the spec.
Perhaps you'd like to outline these improvements?
I did so over a year ago, and changes to the spec since then mean that the
suggestion is no longer useful. See my messages from 16 Jun 2004 Subject:
Re: CSV specification revision available. My suggestions were apparently
"totally unacceptable" so I lost enthusiasm for working on wording
improvements.
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Neither of these was posted to ietf-clear; so most readers probably
won't be able to find them. :^(
Dave and I pretty much consider Doug Otis to be Document Editor of
CSA. Perhaps Doug will be able to find these messages and explain.
IIFC, we were trying to minimize changes to the specs at that time, so
we probably would have deferred anything we didn't fully understand.
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John Leslie <john(_at_)jlc(_dot_)net>