On 7/26/07 at 11:01 AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
It is RECOMMENDED that the right hand side contain a domain
identifier of an entity that guarantees the uniqueness of the left
hand side within the scope of that domain (for example, the domain
name of the host itself, or a domain name controlled by the vendor of
the software that generates the left hand side).
How about this instead (which is a little closer to the text
throughout the rest of the document)?:
...it is RECOMMENDED that the right hand side
contain some domain
identifier (either of the host itself, of the
implementer, or otherwise)
such that the generator of the message
identifier can guarantee the
uniqueness of the left hand side within the
scope of that domain.
We don't talk of "software" or "vendors" in this document.
"Implementations" and "implementers" are about it.
In section 4.3, why does obs-zone have [CFWS] between the sign and
the digits of the timezone offset? Such space was not permitted by
earlier specifications.
It sure was. Comments and folding white space were allowed between
any two tokens in RFC 822. And since the syntax for zone was:
("+" / "-") 4DIGIT
a comment was allowed between those two. I don't know how to read
3.1.4 and 3.4.3 in RFC 822 and not come up with that interpretation.
pr
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