On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Pete Resnick wrote:
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.
Yes, that looks fine to me.
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.
Yes, you are correct.
Thank you.
--apb (Alan Barrett)