Re: [MORG] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC6154 (5265)

[Arnt Gulbrandsen <[e-mail]>]

Barry Leiba writes:
> That said, while this doesn't represent an error or omission in the
> spec, it certainly wouldn't have hurt to have been explicit about
> this.  So I also suggest that any work the Extra working group does
> related to IMAP takes an extra sentence here or there to be clear that
> the items it defines are case-insensitive, and that the case shown in
> the text is merely an editorial choice (perhaps just by explicitly
> saying "See the ABNF notes at the beginning of RFC 3501 Section 9.").

The problem here is that IMAP documents suffer from a moderate case of "do 
as I say, not as I do" syndrome. They say to treat flag names, keywords etc 
case insensitively, but the document authors treat those things case 
sensitively in the document.

There's a perfectly clear rule on page 81, and most of the 107 other pages 
are written as if the opposite rule were in force. That's not kind to the 
reader.

Arnt