[abnf-discuss] Unicode in ABNF (in RFC) draft-seantek-unicode-in-abnf-01.txt

[Sean Leonard <[e-mail]>]

Dear ABNF-Discuss (and rfc-interest):

This draft by Chris Newman and I addresses an interesting topic: how to 
do Unicode in ABNF. Unicode has showed up in several different ways in 
protocols that are described in ABNF. These ways are not consistent 
across the RFC series, but now that Unicode is a pretty stable standard 
(for its basic parts) and now that UTF-8 RFCs are becoming a reality per 
draft-iab-rfc-nonascii-02, it is a good time to look at this issue. This 
is a fork from draft-seantek-abnf-more-core-rules.

This draft is currently proposed as Experimental. Special thanks to Paul 
Kyzivat for discussing the matters in this draft, although he is not 
formally a co-author.

The draft tries to be very conservative in its approach. Please read the 
draft for details. Some stuff was intentionally omitted as out-of-scope 
or too complicated for a general-purpose ABNF syntax parser, whether 
humans or machines.

Comments and feedback are appreciated.

Regards,

Sean

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A new version of I-D, draft-seantek-unicode-in-abnf-01.txt
has been successfully submitted by Sean Leonard and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name:		draft-seantek-unicode-in-abnf
Revision:	01
Title:		Unicode in ABNF
Document date:	2016-10-01
Group:		Individual Submission
Pages:		11
URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-seantek-unicode-in-abnf-01.txt
Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-seantek-unicode-in-abnf/
Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-seantek-unicode-in-abnf-01
Diff:           https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-seantek-unicode-in-abnf-01

Abstract:
    This experimental document adds support for Unicode strings in ABNF
    (Augmented Backus-Naur Form), and provides certain symbols related to
    Unicode code point ranges.