I've created an -04 based on the additional comments received in the
past few days.
Changes from -03 to -04:
* Clarified and made consistent treatment of signature separator lines.
* Fixes to ABNF.
* Reworded section on digital signatures and encryption.
* Noted meaning of "paragraph".
The updated text is available at
<ftp://ftp.pensive.org/Public/Randy/draft-gellens-format-bis-04.txt>
Changes from -02 to -03:
* Added mention of quoting to Abstract and Introduction.
* Deleted line analysis table.
* Added MUST NOT for OpenPGP and SHOULD for OpenPGP-MIME.
* Replaced ABNF rules to remove ambiguity
* Added note that c-t-e is irrelevant to flowed text processing
* Added text indicating that end of data terminates a paragraph
* Moved sig-sep out of fixed-line ABNF
* Changed some SHOULDs to MUSTs (space-stuffing, quoted paragraphs)
* Added note to ABNF that space and ">" are encoded according to charset
* Mentioned exceptions in section on interpreting
* Moved section on interpreting before section on generating.
* Reworded non-normative "should"s.
--
Randall Gellens
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