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Last Call Review of draft-koster-rep-06
review-koster-rep-06-artart-lc-herr-2022-03-03-00

Request Review of draft-koster-rep
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 12)
Type IETF Last Call Review
Team ART Area Review Team (artart)
Deadline 2022-04-07
Requested 2022-02-28
Authors Martijn Koster , Gary Illyes , Henner Zeller , Lizzi Sassman
I-D last updated 2022-09-12 (Latest revision 2022-07-06)
Completed reviews Secdir IETF Last Call review of -10 by Tirumaleswar Reddy.K (diff)
Artart IETF Last Call review of -06 by Todd Herr (diff)
Artart IETF Last Call review of -08 by Todd Herr (diff)
Intdir IETF Last Call review of -08 by Ralf Weber (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Todd Herr
State Completed
Request IETF Last Call review on draft-koster-rep by ART Area Review Team Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/art/oaAMYwH7lWH4Xty01nSh1qSu7XU
Reviewed revision 06 (document currently at 12)
Result Ready w/issues
Completed 2022-03-03
review-koster-rep-06-artart-lc-herr-2022-03-03-00
Comments from Todd Herr (todd.herr@valimail.com)

* I found section 2.2.3, Special Characters, confusing. Specifically, the
  first table in that section includes an entry for the "$" character,
  and the middle column in that row contains text that says "A URI MUST
  end with a $."

  However, there is at least one URI in the table in section 2.2.2 that
  doesn't end with a $, as well as one in the second table in section 2.2.3
  that doesn't end with a $, as well as other URIs scattered throughout the
  document that don't end with a $.

  Can this be clarified, please?

* In section 2.3.1.3, Unavailable status, the crawler is given a choice
  of accessing any resources on the server or using a cached version of
  robots.txt. 

  I'm having trouble envisioning a crawler that wouldn't take advantage 
  of this situation to crawl the entire site, so I'm wondering if the 
  second MAY clause is even worth stating?

* Section 2.6 has a subject/verb disagreement:

  "Listing URIs in the robots.txt file exposes the URI publicly and
   thus making the URIs discoverable."

  In that sentence, "making" should be replaced by "makes".