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Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: Use of LWSP in ABNF -- consensus call

Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu> Fri, 18 May 2007 14:59 UTC

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From: Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>
To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: Use of LWSP in ABNF -- consensus call
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>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> writes:

    Keith> it could be argued that the best thing to do is to remove
    Keith> ALL of the rules from the ABNF spec, leaving only the
    Keith> language definition and examples.  (actually I think I did
    Keith> argue this sometime around 1996, but I'm too lazy to search
    Keith> through old email to find it.  

I think this would be too big of a change going from draft to full
given our experience.  If we had huge tracts of problems with the
rules, it might be a different situation.

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