RFC Errata
Found 2 records.
Status: Verified (1)
RFC 6365, "Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF", September 2011
Source of RFC: appsawg (app)
Errata ID: 2966
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Stéphane Bortzmeyer
Date Reported: 2011-09-10
Verifier Name: Peter Saint-Andre
Date Verified: 2011-11-12
Section 2 says:
Malay is primarily written in
Latin script today, but the earlier, Arabic-script-based, Jawa
form is still in use
It should say:
Malay is primarily written in
Latin script today, but the earlier, Arabic-script-based, Jawi
form is still in use
Notes:
I don't know this script myself but it seems that, in english, it is always called Jawi (Jawa is the old name for the island it came from, so Jawi = script from Jawa).
This script (actually a variant of the arabic one) does not seem to be in ISO 15924 so I cannot offer an authoritative reference.
Status: Rejected (1)
RFC 6365, "Terminology Used in Internationalization in the IETF", September 2011
Source of RFC: appsawg (app)
Errata ID: 4005
Status: Rejected
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: John Klensin
Date Reported: 2014-06-04
Rejected by: Barry Leiba
Date Rejected: 2014-06-11
Throughout the document, when it says:
US-ASCII
It should say:
ASCII
Notes:
The term "US-ASCII" is an IETF artifact, left over from some misunderstandings about what "ASCII" referred to (and the complete absence of CSCII or CASCII, MSCII or MXSCII, BRSCII, ARSCII, and other "American" coded character sets). It is a source of confusion for people who come to IETF specifications with a background in coded character sets and terminology from other areas or standards bodies and has been warned against multiple times. It should not have appeared in this document except possibly with a warning against its use (and the use of other bogus terms like "ASCII7"). The second author, who is normally sensitive to the issue, has no idea how this got past him, even in text picked up from other documents, but supposes this is what errata are for.
In any event, there is no such thing as "US-ASCII": the term is an erroneous and misleading synonym/ substitute for "ASCII". The reference for the latter is correct, but the citation anchor should probably be corrected as well.
--VERIFIER NOTES--
(1) It's clear that this is NOT errata: the use of "US-ASCII" in the document was quite intentional at the time.
(2) If (and it's not clear that there's consensus on this) we think that "US-ASCII" is not the right term, the right answer is to revise the document. Should that be done, we'd open up quite a debate about what terminology is right, and why. Simply replacing all occurrences of "US-ASCII" with "ASCII" is unlikely to be the answer. Whatever should happen would be more complicated than that.