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

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Wed, 14 July 2010 14:19 UTC

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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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* 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. 
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