Re: [MMUSIC] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5245 (3952)

Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> Wed, 09 April 2014 14:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [MMUSIC] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5245 (3952)
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Thanks for the quick feedback.  I have marked this as Rejected.


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Ari Keränen <ari.keranen@ericsson.com>wrote:

> On 04/04/14 18:37, Martin Thomson wrote:
>
>> On 4 April 2014 04:42, RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Can i know why the priority is maximum of 10 DIGIT length? If possible
>>> we may decrease to 9 DIGIT, so that the value will be fit into integer of
>>> 32bit.
>>>
>>
>> I don't think that the ABNF has to be perfectly prescriptive.  There
>> is text that covers the actual limit (2^32-1).  An exact ABNF would be
>> much harder to understand.
>>
>> Anyone using ABNF and only ABNF to validate syntax is welcome to
>> construct a more precise grammar for their needs.  What is described
>> here is perfectly adequate for an RFC.
>>
>
> I agree with Martin and to clarify: you need up to 10 decimal digits to
> express the whole range of 32 bit integers and hence "1*9 DIGIT" would not
> be sufficient.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Ari
>
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