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       Title     : Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifictions                  
       Author(s) : D. Crocker
       Filename  : draft-ietf-drums-abnf-00.txt
       Pages     : 2
       Date      : 03/13/1996

Internet technical specifications often need to define a format syntax and 
are free to employ whatever notation their authors deem useful.  Over the 
years, a modified of Backus-Naur Form (BNF), called Augmented BNF, has been
popular.  It balances compactness with reasonable representation power.  In
the early days of the Arpanet, each specification contained its own 
provision for ABNF.  This included the email specifications, RFC733 and 
then RFC822 which have come to be the common citations for defining ABNF.  
The current document separates out that definition, to permit selective 
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