Re: obs-local-part

Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> Wed, 19 May 1999 17:33 UTC

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To: Graham Klyne <GK@dial.pipex.com>
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On 5/19/99 at 1:04 AM +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:

>I am wondering if the syntax for obs-local-part in 
><draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt-07.txt> is what was intended.

I'm not totally positive. This happened after Memphis. Looking back 
at Chris's meeting minutes, I'm not sure that I got it right. Here 
are the sections in question:

At 2:46 PM -0700 5/13/97 in message 
<Pine.SOL.3.95.970513144306.10906B-200000@eleanor.innosoft.com> , 
Chris Newman wrote:
>* May refuse to accept: "foo".bar@baz, linear-white-space
>  between local part & domain elements?
>  Propose, no.  Propose the following litmus test:
>  How widely is it used?
>  What is the burden on implementation?
>  How many people have messed it up in the past?
>  Does changing rule simplify ...
>  ...(see slides)
>  No objections to these rules.

...and...

>* Local-part SHOULD be encoded as as quoted string or dot-atom.
>  Yes, as in current spec.

So I think I should probably make obs-local-part the same as local-part in 822:

      local-part  =  word *("." word)

Chris?

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