Re: [stir] Proposal for update of erratum #6519

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

> 
> On 4/19/21 9:48 AM, Christer Holmberg wrote:
>> Hi,
>> A few comments:
>> Q1: Instead of talking about "being tolerant", we say that an implementation MUST accept values with or without quotes.
> 
> That would place "with" or "without" quote on equal status, which they do not have.
> 
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>> Q2: Regarding the following statement:
>> "Note also that the new syntax does not allow for spaces immediately before or immediately after the token when quoted."
>> That is wrong. The syntax DOES allow it.
> 
> No, it does not.  Let's expand it:
> 
> ident-type = "ppt" EQUAL (token / ( SWS DQUOTE token DQUOTE SWS ))

SWS allows CRLF.  Is that allowed in a claim?  If so, I thought that LDQUOT is defined as SWS DQUOTE, and RDQUOT is defined as DQUOTE SWS.

If we are going to take this approach, we need to allow white space before EQUAL, and we also need it for the unquoted token.

Russ