Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-sieve-variables-04.txt

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Philip Guenther wrote:

>>>The lack of a full list of regex specials is a bit awkward here, but I
>>>guess I can live with it.
>>>      
>>>
>>there is no ABNF in [REGEX] to refer to, and a full list will be prone
>>to inaccuracies.  not that I expect any changes to the syntax allowed by
>>it, but ...
>>    
>>
>
>That would be an argument for moving :quoteregex to the regex draft.
>
I agree.

 >I don't see any wording that limits support for :quotaregex to when the
 >regex extension is also required, so even implementations that don't
 >support regex will need to support :quoteregex.

Right, I don't think this should be required for a bare "variables" 
implementation.

 >To me, that means that this document needs to specify exactly what its 
behavior is.  (Yeah, you
 >could make [REGEX] a normative reference, but ... ick.)

To me ":quoteregex" as written says that REGEX is a normative reference.

I want to repeat and maybe rephrase something I've said to Kjetil 
off-list: I don't think the variables draft should depend on documents 
that might take undetermined amount of time to complete.

Alexey


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