Re: Barry Leiba's No Objection on draft-ietf-xmpp-dna-10: (with COMMENT)

Peter Saint-Andre - &yet <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:57:07 -0600
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On 7/29/15 3:46 AM, Barry Leiba wrote:
> Barry Leiba has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-xmpp-dna-10: No Objection
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> COMMENT:
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> Apart from the ".well-known" issue brought up in my comments to
> xmpp-posh, I have only one, tiny comment here:
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> -- Section 1 --
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>     If such delegation is not done in
>     a secure manner, then the domain name association cannot be verified.
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> Really small point: many people find these sorts of negative-negative
> constructions to be confusing, so I suggest this:
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> NEW
>     The domain name association can only be verified when the delegation
>     is done in a secure manner.
> END

Good point. I agree that such double negatives are the sort of 
construction up with which we shall not put. :-)

Peter