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Re: Last chance to review draft-ietf-sieve-3028bis-10.txt before sending it to IESG

2007-02-05 11:27:01

Alexey Melnikov wrote:

Alexey Melnikov wrote:

Folks,
This is your last chance to review that the document is correct and complete. No new issues can be raised at this stage unless they are very serious.

I actually do have one issue with a recent change in -10 which I consider to be serious, because it broke my Sieve implementation (as well as CMU's)

 > 8.1.     Lexical Tokens
 >
 >    Sieve scripts are encoded in UTF-8.  The following assumes a valid
 >    UTF-8 encoding; special characters in Sieve scripts are all US-ASCII.
 >
 >    The following are tokens in Sieve:
 >
 >            - identifiers
 >            - tags
 >            - numbers
 >            - quoted strings
 >            - multi-line strings
 >            - other separators
 >
 >    Identifiers, tags, and numbers are case-insensitive, while quoted
 >    strings and multi-line strings are case-sensitive.

I actually have a problem with *numbers* being case-insensitive. Cyrus
Sieve doesn't accept "k", "m" and "g" prefixes in numbers.

So I would like to poll the WG regarding this issue. Do people want to make to make number case-insensitive, or should this change be undone? (In the latter case there is one example in 3028bis-10 which uses lowercase 'k' now, which has to change)

Obviously, digits are case-insensitive, but by stating "number" this also includes QUANTIFIER, which only allows uppercase per the ABNF.

I think we should move "numbers" from the case-insensitive list to the case-sensitive list in order to maintain backwards compatibility.

--
Kenneth Murchison
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University