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empty quoted strings and other oddities

Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> Tue, 01 October 2002 03:49 UTC

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RFC 2822 permits (as did 822) a quoted string which
consists solely of a pair of DQUOTE characters.  It's
not clear what the semantics of that are or ought to be.

Likewise, a domain literal can consist solely of the
square brackets.

The combination of the two means that the following is
syntactically valid as an angle-addr or msg-id:

<""@[]>

Perhaps these empty contructs could be relegated to obs-
  status in the next revision, with the generate syntax
changed to use 1* instead of * for the content within a
quoted-string and domain-literal.

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