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Re: Compatibility wit Netnews

2007-05-02 14:10:39

Charles Lindsey wrote:

Removing <quoted-pair> from it would remove most of the problem, and
defning a restricted version of <dtext> without NO-WS-CTL would do the
rest (it might even be a Good Idea to remove NO-WS-CTL from all
<dtext>s).

Yes, please.  This means no "[", "\", "]", or NO-WS-CTL inside of an
address literal, and as it happens nobody needs this for IPv4, IPv6. or
the "IPvFuture" specified in STD 66.

Frank