Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-22

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 01 March 2011 21:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-state] parser rules of draft-ietf-httpstate-cookie-22
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On 3/1/11 2:19 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
>> On 2/28/11 11:58 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> On 2/27/11 11:48 AM, =JeffH wrote:
>>>> Julian noted..
>>>>>
>>>>> On 25.02.2011 18:21, =JeffH wrote:
>>>>>>  >>> cookie-value = *cookie-octet / ( DQUOTE *cookie-octet DQUOTE )
>>>>>>  >>> cookie-octet = %x21 / %x23-2B / %x2D-3A / %x3C-5B / %x5D-7E
>>>>>>  >>> ; ASCII characters excluding CTLs, whitespace,
>>>>>>  >>> ; DQUOTE, comma, semicolon, and backslash
>>>>>>  >>
>>>>>>  >> Works for me. Thanks Roy.
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > In the datatracker, I've updated the RFC Editor note accordingly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> great, thx all for sorting this out.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, I'm glad you've added the comment to the ABNF above, tho one might
>>>>>> add..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> s/ASCII/7-bit ASCII/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ..or something similar to explicitly indicate exclusion of %x80-FF.
>>>>>
>>>>> "US-ASCII", please.
>>>>
>>>> doh, yes of course.
>>>>
>>>> at this point I'm thinking we should add an RFC-Editor Note to the
>>>> effect of adding an explicit normative reference to..
>>>>
>>>>         US-ASCII. Coded Character Set - 7-Bit American Standard Code for
>>>>         Information Interchange. Standard ANSI X3.4-1986, ANSI, 1986.
>>>>
>>>> We already use the term "US-ASCII" also in section 2.2 (of -cookie-22)
>>>> but without citation.
>>>
>>> I agree with Julian: not an RFC Editor note (I really don't like those
>>> because they aren't very transparent), but a revised I-D.
>>
>> The reason I don't particularly like RFC Editor notes is that they are
>> not very transparent (how many people watch the datatracker history?).
>> So here is some transparency for you...
>>
>> The RFC Editor note currently on file in the datatracker is:
>>
>> ###
>>
>> RFC Editor Note
>>
>>   1. Please add the following sentence to the end of the Abstract:
>>
>>      "This document obsoletes RFC 2395."
> 
> Presumably RFC 2965.  It seems RFC 2395 is an informational RFC about
> IP Payload Compression Using LZS.

Yes, good catch.

Peter

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