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

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Tue, 12 July 2011 09:20 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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2011/7/12 Mykyta Yevstifeyev <evnikita2@gmail.com>:
>> That's not true.  RFC 5234 merely uses ASCII in its example.  The terminal
>> values for this particular application of ABNF could be a single bit in
>> place of a character.  5234 doesn't prohibit this
>
> ABNF is designed to deal with characters represented in octets.  The
> terminal value %xHH stands for ASCII character HH, so it's true that %x0
> stands for NUL; so does %b0.  The <BIT> production doesn't denote actual
> bits, but rather representation of bits.
>
>> 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.


Just a comment: RFC 5234 (ABNF) says:

  BIT            =  "0" / "1"

   bin-val        =  "b" 1*BIT
                        [ 1*("." 1*BIT) / ("-" 1*BIT) ]
                           ; series of concatenated bit values
                           ;  or single ONEOF range


Is it speaking about real bits? or about ones and zeroes (chars)?

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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