[Jcardcal] Re: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7265 (9035)

[Andy Newton <[e-mail]>]

Hi Authors,

I have been burned enough by ABNF erratum that I tend to mark them Hold For Document Update unless somebody can strongly attest that the working group truly meant this at the time of doc approval.
What say you?

-andy, ART AD

On 24-07-2026 12:12 PM, [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://errata.rfc-editor.org/eid9035/
> 
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> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Hugo Hörnquist <[e-mail]>
> 
> Section Appendix A says:
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
> param-value = string / param-multi
> param-multi = begin-array
>                [ string *(value-separator string) ]
>                end-array
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
> param-value = string / param-multi
> param-multi = begin-array
>                string *(value-separator string)
>                end-array
> 
> Notes
> -----
> The current syntax allows empty parameter arrays, however, iCalendar
> (RFC 5545) doesn't support empty arrays, instead treating it as a
> single empty string. This breaks the one-to-one mapping between
> iCalendar and jCal.
> 
> Compare with the excerpt from RFC 5545
> 
>       param         = param-name "=" param-value *("," param-value)
>       param-value   = paramtext / quoted-string
>       paramtext     = *SAFE-CHAR
> 
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> RFC7265 (draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcal)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : jCal: The JSON Format for iCalendar
> Publication Date    : May 2014
> Author(s)           : P. Kewisch, C. Daboo, M. Douglass
> Category            : Proposed Standard
> Source              : jcardcal (app)
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG