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RFC 7997, "The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs", December 2016

Source of RFC: IAB

Errata ID: 6319
Status: Verified
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: David Paul
Date Reported: 2020-10-26
Verifier Name: Mirja Kühlewind
Date Verified: 2020-10-27

Section 3.5 says:

   Table 3: A sample of legal passwords

   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | # | Password                       | Notes                        |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 12| <correct horse battery staple> | ASCII space is allowed       |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 13| <Correct Horse Battery Staple> | Different from example 12    |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 14| <&#x3C0;&#xDF;&#xE5;>          | Non-ASCII letters are OK     |
   |   |                                | (e.g., GREEK SMALL LETTER    |
   |   |                                | PI, U+03C0)                  |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 15| <Jack of &#x2666;s>            | Symbols are OK (e.g., BLACK  |
   |   |                                | DIAMOND SUIT, U+2666)        |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 16| <foo&#x1680;bar>               | OGHAM SPACE MARK, U+1680, is |
   |   |                                | mapped to U+0020 and thus    |
   |   |                                | the full string is mapped to |
   |   |                                | <foo bar>                    |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+

   Preferred text:

   Table 3: A sample of legal passwords

   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | # | Password                       | Notes                        |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 12| <correct horse battery staple> | ASCII space is allowed       |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 13| <Correct Horse Battery Staple> | Different from example 12    |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 14| <(See PDF for non-ASCII        | Non-ASCII letters are OK     |
   |   |   character string)>           | (e.g., GREEK SMALL LETTER    |
   |   |                                | PI, U+03C0; LATIN SMALL      |
   |   |                                | LETTER SHARP S, U+00DF; THAI |
   |   |                                | DIGIT SEVEN, U+0E57)         |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 15| <Jack of (See PDF for non-     | Symbols are OK (e.g., BLACK  |
   |   |  ASCII character string)s>     | DIAMOND SUIT, U+2666)        |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 16| <foo(See PDF for non-ASCII     | OGHAM SPACE MARK, U+1680, is |
   |   |  character string)bar>         | mapped to U+0020 and thus    |
   |   |                                | the full string is mapped to |
   |   |                                | <foo bar>                    |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+

It should say:

   Table 3: A sample of legal passwords

   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | # | Password                       | Notes                        |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 12| <correct horse battery staple> | ASCII space is allowed       |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 13| <Correct Horse Battery Staple> | Different from example 12    |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 14| <&#x3C0;&#xDF;&#xE5;>          | Non-ASCII letters are OK     |
   |   |                                | (e.g., GREEK SMALL LETTER    |
   |   |                                | PI, U+03C0)                  |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 15| <Jack of &#x2666;s>            | Symbols are OK (e.g., BLACK  |
   |   |                                | DIAMOND SUIT, U+2666)        |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 16| <foo&#x1680;bar>               | OGHAM SPACE MARK, U+1680, is |
   |   |                                | mapped to U+0020 and thus    |
   |   |                                | the full string is mapped to |
   |   |                                | <foo bar>                    |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+

   Preferred text:

   Table 3: A sample of legal passwords

   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | # | Password                       | Notes                        |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 12| <correct horse battery staple> | ASCII space is allowed       |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 13| <Correct Horse Battery Staple> | Different from example 12    |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 14| <(See PDF for non-ASCII        | Non-ASCII letters are OK     |
   |   |   character string)>           | (e.g., GREEK SMALL LETTER    |
   |   |                                | PI, U+03C0; LATIN SMALL      |
   |   |                                | LETTER SHARP S, U+00DF;      |
   |   |                                | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH    |
   |   |                                | RING ABOVE, U+00E5)          |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 15| <Jack of (See PDF for non-     | Symbols are OK (e.g., BLACK  |
   |   |  ASCII character string)s>     | DIAMOND SUIT, U+2666)        |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+
   | 16| <foo(See PDF for non-ASCII     | OGHAM SPACE MARK, U+1680, is |
   |   |  character string)bar>         | mapped to U+0020 and thus    |
   |   |                                | the full string is mapped to |
   |   |                                | <foo bar>                    |
   +------------------------------------+------------------------------+

Notes:

Observe the #14 row of both tables:

The Notes column in the second table describes a different third Unicode code point than what appears in the Password column of the first table. As the first table is a direct excerpt from RFC7613, it should not be modified and so the second table should be corrected to contain a proper corresponding example.

Status: Reported (1)

RFC 7997, "The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs", December 2016

Source of RFC: IAB

Errata ID: 7808
Status: Reported
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: John Klensin
Date Reported: 2024-02-10

Section 1 says:

Please review the PDF version of this draft.

It should say:

Please review the "PDF with images" version of this draft.

Notes:

This may not be precisely an erratum, but this seems like the right place to report and record it. While the above statement points to the PDF version (as explained further on, to be able to see the non-ASCII characters), if one goes to https://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search_detail.php for this RFC and clicks on "PDF" one gets a PDF rendering that is substantially identical to the text version, i.e., the non-ASCII characters do not appear. "PDF with images" works, but that is not what the specification says.

And, while I'm whining, the use of the term "draft" in that sentence is inappropriate and should have been caught during editing.

Status: Held for Document Update (1)

RFC 7997, "The Use of Non-ASCII Characters in RFCs", December 2016

Source of RFC: IAB

Errata ID: 6032
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Julian Reschke
Date Reported: 2020-03-29
Held for Document Update by: John Levine
Date Held: 2020-12-08

Section 3.4 says:

1.  Temperature changes in the Temperature Control Protocol are
    indicated by the U+2206 character ("Δ").

It should say:

1.  Temperature changes in the Temperature Control Protocol are
    indicated by the U+2206 character ("∆").

Notes:

This applies to the PDF version only (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7997.pdf); the issue is repeated in the following lines.

The character on display is 'GREEK CAPITAL LETTER DELTA' (U+0394), not 'INCREMENT' (U+2206).

(found by Henrik Levkowetz, see https://github.com/rfc-format/draft-iab-rfc-nonascii-bis/issues/4#issuecomment-605623783)

This was marked "Held For Document Update" per discussion with the Temporary RFC Series Project Manager (John Levine).

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