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Re: [http-state] BNF notation differences, was: Comments on draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-08.txt (1 - 4.1.2.)

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Wed, 14 July 2010 17:17 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:16:43 -0700
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Subject: Re: [http-state] BNF notation differences, was: Comments on draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-08.txt (1 - 4.1.2.)
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
> * Julian Reschke wrote:
>>So the comment was applied to sane-cookie-date, but it also applies to
>>token. Furthermore, the ABNF for domain-value (RFC 1034) uses yet
>>another syntax. So maybe it would be better to remove the comment again,
>>and just to add a prose warning that these three productions inherited
>>from other specs are defined in different variants of ABNF.
>
> The reference to RFC 1034 is most likely in error, the subdomain rule
> there prohibits for instance values that start with a digit; see e.g.
> draft-iab-idn-encoding for some of the history around that.

Is there another reference you'd prefer?

Adam

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