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Re: [art] Fwd: S-expressions

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 21 March 2024 18:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] Fwd: S-expressions
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This describes a mutant S-expression that as far as I know is only
used in the experimental RFCs 2693 and 6253. It is not the S expression
that IMAP uses.

R's,
John

>---------- Forwarded message ---------
>From: Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com>
>Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
>Subject: S-expressions
>To: ART ADs <art-ads@ietf.org>
>
>
>Colleagues,
>
>I've received a request to assist with publication of a document specifying
>S-expressions.  We currently have draft-rivest-sexp in the repository.
>
>This was presented at DISPATCH and recommended for handling outside of the
>iETF.  The ISE reviewed the document and has declined to process it.  Since
>we have five standards track RFCs that base some of their syntaxes on
>S-expressions, it would seem having a stable reference for it to support
>future work would be a good idea, so I'm considering sponsoring it.
>
>If anyone would like to make an argument that it should really be done via
>a working group, we also have the option to charter a tightly-scoped
>working group that might only ever meet a couple of times to get it done.
>
>The document is marked as seeking Informational status, but if someone
>wants to argue it should really be on the standards track, that's also
>something I'd like to hear about.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-MSK, ART AD

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