Re: [salud] New version of the ABNF-syntax

worley@ariadne.com (Dale R. Worley) Fri, 08 March 2013 16:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [salud] New version of the ABNF-syntax
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> >        alert-URN         = "urn:alert:" alert-identifier
> >        alert-identifier  = alert-category ":" alert-indication
> >        alert-category    = alert-name
> >        alert-indication  = alert-name *(":" alert-name)
> >        alert-name        = alert-label / private-name
> >        private-name      = alert-label "@" provider
> >        provider          = provider-id ["(" date ")"]
> >        provider-id       = 1*(domain-label ".") domain-label
> >        alert-label       = let-dig [ *let-dig-hyp let-dig ]
> >        domain-label      = let-dig [ *let-dig-hyp let-dig ]

> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 06:07:27 +0800
> From: Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu>
> 
> This looks good. For reasons of non-redundancy, I would be inclined to 
> make one tweak:
> 
>     alert-label = domain-label

We might consider:

        alert-label       = label
        domain-label      = label
        label             = let-dig [ *let-dig-hyp let-dig ]

But the savings are small.

Dale