Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

Mykyta Yevstifeyev <evnikita2@gmail.com> Wed, 13 July 2011 17:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Last Call: <draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt> (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard
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13.07.2011 17:41, Barry Leiba wrote:
>>>>> BIT            =  "0" / "1"
>>>> implies that<BIT>    may be either ASCII 0x31 - "1" - or ASCII 0x30 - "0".
>>>>   Once more, ABNF is for chars/octets, not bits.
> Mykyta, be careful not to confuse the code for generating ABNF (for
> which what you say above is correct) with the *use* of ABNF in
> protocol specifications (for which you're wrong).
>
> The construct above,<<  BIT = "0" / "1">>, says that when you're
> writing ABNF, you use the characters "0" and "1" (codes 30 and 31) to
> represent the bit values.  But when we apply that ABNF in a protocol,
> we can get any of these:
>
> the-letter-c = %b01100011  ; also %x63
>
> halfbyte-value-3 = %b0011  ; also %x3
>
> two-bits-both-set = %b11
>
> a-single-one-bit-by-itself = %b1
>
> -----
> %x3 and %x03 are not the same thing, and %b00000011, %b0011, and %b11
> are not the same things.

I can't agree with you here.  ABNF treats anything after %<letter> as 
integer, which is stated in Section 2.3 of RFC 5234:

>     Rules resolve into a string of terminal values, sometimes called
>     characters.  In ABNF, a character is merely a non-negative integer.

so leading zeros are ignored, as the have no meaning in integers.  
Moreover, and I'll repeat this for the nth time, ABNF deals with 
characters.  So both %b0011 and %b11, and %b00000011 mean the terminal 
value denoting the character under binary code 11 (octet 00000011b) in 
ASCII, BEL char, as far as I see.  RFC 5234 doesn't imply that ABNF may 
be employed to denote bits, half- or parts of bytes, etc.

Mykyta
>
> Barry
>