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Re: [appsdir] [apps-discuss] Request for RFC draft review

Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net> Wed, 31 December 2014 14:16 UTC

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Cc: appsdir@ietf.org, Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>, "apps-discuss@ietf.org" <apps-discuss@ietf.org>, Nick Matavka <n.theodore.matavka.files@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [appsdir] [apps-discuss] Request for RFC draft review
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On 31 December 2014 at 13:50, Claudio Allocchio <Claudio.Allocchio@garr.it>
wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Dec 2014, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
>
>  What is the point of this?
>>
>> This isn't a rhetorical question, I actually am intrigued.
>>
>
> My guess is to document what as become "common practice" but was not
> inside the original standard, and to make it standardized.
>
> As there are quite a number of "extensions" which are not officially
> documented, it is worth to document them.
>
> At least this is my understanding of the point for making it. But Nick can
> add much more for sure.
>

But, I mean, gopher? I thought I was weird running an ACAP server. :-)

I've skimmed the document; I didn't immediately see any ABNF or similar
formal syntax, struggled to figure out what the syntax of a selector string
is, and I thought I noticed a casual mention that textual types were 7-bit
only. Is this really the case?

Dave.

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