Re: Last Call: <draft-melnikov-mmhs-header-fields-04.txt> (Registration of Military Message Handling System (MMHS) header fields for use in Internet Mail) to Informational RFC

[Mykyta Yevstifeyev <[e-mail]>]

So some small comments:

1) A nit in Change controller field for all the header fields: you 
should either change it to IESG ([e-mail]) or IETF with subsequent 
address [e-mail].

2) Also, it might be useful to point out in the sub-sections of Section 
3 which ABNF productions do the header fields match.

3) Section 4:

>   Terms not defined here are taken from [RFC5322] and [RFC2156].

You probably missed RFC 5234 (with e. g. <DQUOTE>) here.

Some ABNF nits:

4)

>      military-string = 1*69( ps-char )

No harm to change it to "1*69ps-char"

5)

>      std-precedence = "deferred" / "routine" / "priority" /
>                       "immediate" / "flash" / "override"
>      std-message-type = "exercise" / "operation" / "project" /  "drill"

Is there an ability to extend the allowed range of parameters here?

6)

>      nonneg-integer = "0" / (NZ-DIGIT *DIGIT)

Should this be

>      nonneg-integer = "0" / ( [ "+" ] NZ-DIGIT *DIGIT)

as non-negative integer implies that it may be prepended by "+" (as well 
as zero - I don't know exactly).

7)

>      military-string-sequence = military-string
>                          [ [FWS] ";" [FWS] military-string-sequence ]

I think

>      military-string-sequence = military-string
>                          [ [FWS] ";" [FWS] military-string ]

is just the same but improves readability (unless you make this 
intentionally, but I see no reason).

8)

>      Subject-Indicator-Codes = "MMHS-Subject-Indicator-Codes:"
>                                [FWS] [sic-sequence] [FWS] CRLF

Can the header field appear to be:

>      MMHS-Subject-Indicator-Codes:

as you allow.  Maybe removing [] around sic-sequence?

9) I'd like you hereby disallowed further registration of header fields 
beginning with "MMHS", likewise RFC 5504 "Downgraded" prefix 
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5504#page-18).

Mykyta Yevstifeyev

14.09.2011 22:53, The IESG wrote:
> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
> the following document:
> - 'Registration of Military Message Handling System (MMHS) header fields
>     for use in Internet Mail'
>    <draft-melnikov-mmhs-header-fields-04.txt>  as an Informational RFC