Re: [Extra] Some comments on draft-ietf-extra-imap-64bit

And for the extensions:

https://github.com/ietfextra/tracking/issues/5

(it's easy to close these off, just good to track them)

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, at 22:01, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> Hi Stephan,

> 
> On 15/09/2017 17:06, Stephan Bosch wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>>  I gave draft-ietf-extra-imap-64bit a quick look. I have a few
>>  comments on the syntax specification.>> 
>>  First of all, the elements fetch-att, msg-att-static, and search-key
>>  are just copy-pasted from RFC 3501. Those are meant to have number64
>>  instead.> Yes, fixed.
> 
>
>> I wonder whether it would be a good idea to have intermediary
>> elements called e.g. `msg-size = number64' and `msg-lines =
>> number64', so that future changes/extensions to the message size and
>> line count syntax aren't such a pain anymore.> Might be a good idea. If you send me the specific ABNF fragment, this
> will speed up the process.> 
>
>> The "capability" syntax element is not extended (arguably not all
>> specifications do this).> This is typically done in prose.
> 
> 
>> Finally, the following IMAP capabilities have syntax that is affected
>> by this extension:>> 
>>  QUOTA - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2087.txt
> Good point, I will have a look.
>
>> BINARY - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3516.txt (not only literal8)> 
> Looking at the ABNF:
> 
>
>    append         =/  "APPEND" SP mailbox [SP flag-list] [SP date-
>    time] SP literal8  fetch-att      =/  "BINARY" [".PEEK"] section-
>    binary [partial] / "BINARY.SIZE" section-binary  literal8       =
>    "~{" number "}" CRLF *OCTET ; <number> represents the number of
>    OCTETs ; in the response string.  msg-att-static =/  "BINARY" section-
>    binary SP (nstring / literal8) / "BINARY.SIZE" section-binary SP
>    number  partial        =   "<" number "." nz-number ">"  resp-text-
>    code =/  "UNKNOWN-CTE"  section-binary =   "[" [section-part] "]"
>> 
> 
> I don't think we need 64bit section numbers, but I missed updating
> "partial".> 
> 
>> URL-PARTIAL - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5550.txt ->
>> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5092.txt (partial-range)>>  APPENDLIMIT - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7889.txt
> Yes, these need to be looked at as well.
> 
>  Best Regards,
>  Alexey
> 
> 
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