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[98.42.225.165]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-1fed7fe7556sm84474395ad.291.2024.07.29.08.36.12 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:36:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <726d2558-4a1a-4dd9-92b1-ec8dd6a3b8e8@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:35:33 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US To: Paul Kyzivat , Carsten Bormann References: <89a4a566-8ffe-413e-9196-3f08bebe8d20@w3.org> <99E8B992-AF60-4CD6-9786-2EC180E95E4D@tzi.org> <2867abac-8c62-41b2-a20c-cb9fe8d3736d@alum.mit.edu> <99B795A8-DC51-409A-8395-A0CD5E5C24BF@tzi.org> <5f0ada79-2520-4460-a558-919b40943cdc@gmail.com> From: Dave Crocker In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID-Hash: XXH7HRZZLRJVDXNQFQBBYA5Q5SPDUM7Q X-Message-ID-Hash: XXH7HRZZLRJVDXNQFQBBYA5Q5SPDUM7Q X-MailFrom: dcrocker@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-cbor.ietf.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Dominique Hazael-Massieux , art@ietf.org, tools-discuss , CBOR , abnf-discuss@ietf.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.9rc4 Precedence: list Subject: =?utf-8?q?=5BCbor=5D_Re=3A_=5BTools-discuss=5D_=5Babnf-discuss=5D_Re=3A_=5Ba?= =?utf-8?q?rt=5D_Re=3A_Exploring_ABNF_extracts_from_RFCs?= List-Id: "Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)" Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 7/29/2024 8:26 AM, Paul Kyzivat wrote: > It would be *nice* if we could find an approach that works for at > least the languages most commonly embedded in RFCs. That seems > challenging given the variety of language syntax/semantics. Embedding > some parts in comments is interesting, but of course the comment > syntax varies. The variance among languages seems another good reason to not have it be part of any language, but instead an 'exterior' packaging/importing mechanism.  (Echo MIME.  hint. hint.) d/ -- Dave Crocker dcrocker@gmail.com mast:@dcrocker@mastodon.social 408.329.0791 Volunteer, Silicon Valley Chapter Northern California Coastal Region Information & Planning Coordinator American Red Cross dave.crocker2@redcross.org