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Re: P2717R1, EcoIS Introspection

From: Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 17:09:14 -0400
On 5/17/23 4:48 PM, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via SG15 wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 3:26 PM Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On 5/17/23 2:16 PM, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via SG15 wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 12:51 PM Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> [1] Importing SemVer itself into ISO is probably a whole different beast
>> as I suspect it is outside of the ISO "allowed to reference" list.
>>
>> And right, just referring to SmeVer in the IS is not possible. As it's
>> not a standard in any real form. So we can't even evaluate the part
>> about it being one of the liason organizations. Which unfortunately is
>> going to be a recurring aspect of things in the EcoIS :-(
>>
>> Have you confirmed this with Thomas Köppe?
>>
>> See [time.zone.general] for an example where we "reference" the IANA Time Zone Database in a rather informal way (we don't list it as a normative reference in [intro.refs]).
> Interesting, it's listed only as a bibliography entry. But there is
> one rather large difference in that case and the case of importing
> semver.. The IANA Time Zone db is not imported into the IS as a
> standard. It's only referenced as "this thing here lets you access
> that thing out there". Which is fine to do. To use semver we would
> have to replicate the semver rules in our IS. Unless we can find
> someone who has already done that in some other published standard.
> Then we can just reference it without replication. Like we do for some
> of the regex ECMA stuff IIRC.
>
> Having said that.. Semver is small enough that it might be worth
> replicating. Question would be what worth we see in semver?

I highly recommend you talk to Thomas first. There may very well be
permissible ways to reference it that get you what you are looking for.

Tom.

Received on 2023-05-17 21:09:16