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Re: [Json] Update reference for ABNF

Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com> Thu, 06 June 2013 10:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Update reference for ABNF
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On 6/5/2013 7:00 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Douglas Crockford <douglas@crockford.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6/5/2013 6:22 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>> On Jun 5, 2013, at 5:32 PM, "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> P.S. Another little fix: update reference to ABNF from RFC4234 to RFC5234.
>>> Sounds good to me, as long as a few people promise to do a careful checking of that.
>>>
>>> --Paul Hoffman
>> Why does this matter? Does RFC5234 offer us any better precision?
> No, but in the IETF, when one RFC is updated by another, there is an expectation that a new RFC will always refer to the latter.
>
> --Paul Hoffman
Who will assure that no problems will be introduce if we do this?

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