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Request Review of draft-ietf-eai-rfc5335bis
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 13)
Type IETF Last Call Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2011-10-18
Requested 2011-10-07
Authors Abel Yang , Shawn Steele , Ned Freed
I-D last updated 2020-01-21 (Latest revision 2011-10-21)
Completed reviews Secdir IETF Last Call review of -?? by Glen Zorn
Assignment Reviewer Glen Zorn
State Completed
Request IETF Last Call review on draft-ietf-eai-rfc5335bis by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Completed 2011-10-28
review-ietf-eai-rfc5335bis-secdir-lc-zorn-2011-10-28-00
I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's
ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the
IESG.  These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the
security area directors.  Document editors and WG chairs should treat
these comments just like any other last call comments.

EDITORIAL COMMENTS

Section 3., last paragraph: s/&UTF8SMTPbis;/UTF8SMTPbis/

Section 3.1, last paragraph: I've pretty much given up complaining about
the abominable practice of using pointers as if they were real objects
(e.g., "See [RFC5198] for a discussion...") but the use of a pointer to
a document as a noun ("normalization form [NFC] SHOULD be used" is much
too much: both confusing (Is there a document describing the NFKC
normalization form?  Sure, it's [NFC]!) and too precious by far.
STRONGLY suggest changing the text to read

   See RFC 5198 [RFC5198] for a discussion of Unicode normalization;
   normalization form NFC [UNF] SHOULD be used.  Actually, if one is
   going to do internationalization properly, one of the most
   often-cited goals is to permit people to spell their names
   correctly.  Since many mailbox local parts reflect personal names,
   that principle applies to mailboxes as well.  The NFKC [UNF]
   normalization form SHOULD NOT be used because it may lose
   information that is needed to correctly spell some names in some
   unusual circumstances.