Pete Resnick wrote:
Pete Resnick writes:
I'd rather stick with the liberal syntax for now, and maybe add a note
that says, "You SHOULD be conservative in what you generate, as
NO-WS-CTLs, quoted-pairs, and specials are known to cause heartburn in
some environments (cf. USEFOR)."
+1. Proposed text: «It is RECOMMENDED to use only A-Z, a-z, 0-9, ".",
...
So, now I'm beginning to get uneasy about using SHOULD/RECOMMENDED in here.
If we want normative language like the above, we should really
I was going to quibble about using 'SHOULD' because it is so forceful, and
that a 'MAY' would suffice, but you are raising the larger question of whether
it is appropriate to have normative text at all.
I think that the real-world need is satisfied adequately while avoiding the
pitfalls of being normative, in this case: Add advisory text that notes the
issue and describes how to resolve it. But make a point of using no normative
text to do this.
In effect, the issue here is defining a sub-set profile that permits
gatewaying between Internet mail and Netnews. A thoroughly laudable goal, but
not one for RFC2822bis...
d/
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Dave Crocker
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