Re: [Jcardcal] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7265 (6360)

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

I believe this is incorrect, in that...

      VERSION:2.0\;2.9

...*is* the only correct way to represent that option in iCalendar.
It doesn't help, I guess, that there's no example of a VERSION
property that looks like that, but see RFC 5545 Section 3.3.11, which says
this:

      A SEMICOLON character in a "TEXT" property value MUST
      be escaped with a BACKSLASH character.

...and Section 3.8.8.3, which gives this example for REQUEST-STATUS:

       REQUEST-STATUS:2.8; Success\, repeating event ignored. Scheduled
        as a single event.;RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY\;INTERVAL=2

Does anyone think this analysis is incorrect?

Barry, ART AD

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:40 AM RFC Errata System
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7265,
> "jCal: The JSON Format for iCalendar".
>
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> You may review the report below and at:
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid6360
>
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> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Julian Cowley <[e-mail]>
>
> Section: GLOBAL
>
> Original Text
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> Corrected Text
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>
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> Notes
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> In RFC 5545, one of the allowable values for the VERSION property is a minimum version and a maximum version, separated by a semicolon (;).  The value type is TEXT.  When the jCal value is converted back to iCalendar, the text is subject to escape with a backslash.  This yields a result which is not valid for the VERSION property.
>
> Example:
>
> [ "version", {}, "text", "2.0;2.9" ]
>
> becomes
>
> VERSION:2.0\;2.9
>
> which is invalid because it contains the backslash.
>
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC7265 (draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcal-10)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : jCal: The JSON Format for iCalendar
> Publication Date    : May 2014
> Author(s)           : P. Kewisch, C. Daboo, M. Douglass
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : JSON data formats for vCard and iCalendar
> Area                : Applications
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG