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Re: [apps-discuss] draft-yevstifeyev-abnf-separated-lists-01.txt

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 07 December 2010 08:42 UTC

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Cc: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>, Dave CROCKER <dcrocker@bbiw.net>, apps-discuss@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] draft-yevstifeyev-abnf-separated-lists-01.txt
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On 07.12.2010 08:41, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote:
> ...
>> I agree with Tony that if you can't include examples of how we should
>> have had this before, it'll be hard to convince the community and the
>> IESG that it's needed now.  We can always come up with things that
>> *might* be useful, but part of the challenge is keeping the language
>> as simple as possible (and no simpler).
>>
> The construction will be used while definig the HTTP headers which
> contain the list of element. Now I am thinking about some other
> examples.
> ...

If your use case is to specify new HTTP headers, I'd recommend that you 
stick with the RFC 2616 syntax (because you want to inherit the rules 
for implied LWS anyway).

If you can wait for HTTPbis, you can use RFC 5234 syntax with # as an 
extension as defined by HTTPbis.

Best regards, Julian

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