[GeoJSON] erratum 5069

[Sean Gillies]

Indeed, Martin, the report is incorrect. The right hand rule is the spec is
exactly what the WG intended. There was a email conservation about the item
last summer and I think that no rejection is only due to oversight or
backlog.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Martin Raifer <tyr.asd at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm wondering about the following reported erratum on rfc7946
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5069 about section 3.1.6.:
>
> > It seems like the clockwise/counterclockwise descriptions are the
> opposite of the right-hand rule. Walking an exterior ring in a
> counterclockwise direction would have the exterior of the ring to the right
> of the observer.
>
> I believe that this erratum is incorrect and that the given
> interpretation of the "right hand rule" in rfc7946 – exterior ring
> have counterclockwise winding order – is actually the intended one. Is
> that correct?
>
> I'm not very familiar with RFC errata (and their statuses [1]), but it
> looks to me like it was reported, but not yet verified or rejected. It
> would certainly be nice to have the status of this erratum clarified
> (for example so that the rfc7946 page no longer IMHO falsely states
> that "Errata Exist"). Or is the verification process already in
> progress?
>
> Best,
> Martin Raifer
>
> [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata-definitions/
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