The purpose of this issue is to start discussion about how to turn this into a completed draft to send to the IESG. Perhaps the most important issue is how much of the explanatory and motivational material to leave in. There is a case to be made for taking all of it out, so you get a nice short RFC that just says what I-Regexp is. So here's my initial straw-person proposal on what should be removed and changed:
Remove the "issues" para in Section 3.
Section 5.2, 5.3, remove the trailing note about improving performance. This is an implementation artifact, no?
Section 6. Replace with a single short paragraph somewhat as follows: "While regular expressions originally were intended to describe a formal language, i.e., to provide a Boolean matching function, they have turned into parsing functions for many applications. With this accretion of features, parsing regexp libraries have become susceptible to bugs and performance degradation, in particular those that can be exploited in Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in the case where an attacker controls the regex submitted for processing. I-Regexp is designed to offer interoperability, and to be less vulnerable to such attacks, with the trade-off that its only function is to offer a boolean response as to whether a character sequence is matched by a regex. [ If we really feel that other parts of this discussion add value, they could migrate into an appendix.]
6.1 - cut this down, retaining the first para of the first bullet point, the first sentence of the second bullet point, and that's all. The Unicode discussion can migrate into Appendix A.
cabo
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2 years ago
The purpose of this issue is to start discussion about how to turn this into a completed draft to send to the IESG. Perhaps the most important issue is how much of the explanatory and motivational material to leave in. There is a case to be made for taking all of it out, so you get a nice short RFC that just says what I-Regexp is. So here's my initial straw-person proposal on what should be removed and changed: