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2007-11-08

RFC errata

Various pending RFC errata have been published recently, among others for RFC 2069, 2822, and 4408. The RFC editor might soon offer a Web form for submissions as outlined in an Internet Draft.

  • The 2069 erratum resulted in an editorial update of my MD5 test suite.
  • The 2822 erratum was already covered in the 2822upd drafts.
  • The 4408 erratum is actually a link to the OpenSPF errata page.

2007-11-07

Sorbian and Frisian use the Latin script

The language subtag registry defined in BCP 47 was updated, it now contains the new region codes BL & MF and Suppress-Script: Latn for the Frisian languages frr, frs, and fy, for the Sorbian languages dsb and hsb, and for the Low and Swiss German languages nds and gsw.

The mis entry was updated some months ago in ISO 639, its description is now uncoded languages. I've created new experimental XML versions of the registry, for other formats check out the Language Tags site.

Lever dood as slaav ;-)

2007-11-05

ABNF, Archived-At, News, and NNTP

RFC 4234bis was approved, we'll soon see a new Internet Standard (STD) about ABNF, the syntax used in many RFCs. An RFC defining the Archived-At header field in e-mail and news was approved earlier while I was in essence incommunicado after a system crash... :-(

I've submitted new versions of the news and nntp URI draft, adding an appendix with a detailed example about the relations between Archived-At, Message-ID, Xref, news-, and nntp-URLs. Two typos in version 06 fixed, this draft reached a point where it's easier to spoil it than to improve it.

2007-11-02

Broken validators

Popular validators like the WDG and the W3C validator unfortunately still accept various kinds of broken URIs not limited to unencoded IRIs as "valid". For the W3C validator that's a known bug.

Admittedly it's almost impossible to fix this bug based on a DTD, renaming %URI; as in the related XML schema anyURI to %IRI; in the DTD has the same effect as renaming it to %FOO; for DTD-validators, the datatype is still CDATA, or in other words (almost) anything goes.

Hopefully even DTD-validators will be fixed really soon to check URIs. Broken URLs are abused for attacks, ironically that was a side effect of better URI tests, several applications failed to check the generic RFC 3986 syntax. All valid URIs match this generic syntax, scheme specific URIs are proper subsets of the generic syntax. URI "producers" including MediaWiki as well as URI "consumers" including validators have to get this right, otherwise bad things happen.

The folks at validome hope that they'll get this right soon, schema validators have an advantage. They already identify the IDNwiki and its E-mail test as invalid, big oops for accessibility tests (IANAL).

Update: The IDNwiki pages were fixed 2007-11-21.

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