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Re: Last Call: <draft-yevstifeyev-disclosure-relation-00.txt> (The 'disclosure' Link Relation Type) to Informational RFC

2012-01-02 01:27:52
2012/1/1 Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net>:
* 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

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