- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:57:52 +0200
- To: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On 28.07.2010 11:13, Julian Reschke wrote: > From Boris: > > "I object to this on the grounds that referencing a pay-for spec for > ASCII will essentially make the reference useless. No one is going to > bother paying for this when free copies are so readily available. So if > we are referencing the pay-for copy, we are effectively not helping > people out at all." > > What's relevant is that we reference a document that actually is > normative. If it is "pay-for", that's sad, but doesn't change the reality. > > In practice, almost all specs in the IETF cite ANSI for US-ASCII, and I > have never seen any complaint about that, because, guess what, nobody > needs to look it up anyway. > ... I also have to note that the HTML spec already has normative references to pay-to-read ISO specs, such as 8601 and 8859-11 (yes, that one), so it's entirely unclear to me where this rules come from. Best regards, Julian
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