And here I was thinking that I was going to get to duck all of this.
Some confusion in terminology (and some broken syntax in 2822) led to
a short discussion resulting in the following:
- 2821bis and 2822upd will both define "Header Section" as the
complete set of header fields at the beginning of a message.
- 2821bis and 2822upd will both define "Header Field" as a line in a
message with a field name followed by a colon followed by a field
body.
- 2821bis and 2822upd will both avoid using the terms "header" and
"headers" in isolation to avoid ambiguity.
- 2821bis will use the term "received clause" to refer to a keyword
and the set of stuff that follows it before the next keyword (so,
"for presnick(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com" is a received clause).
- 2822upd will simplify the syntax of received clauses (what is now
"name-val-list") such that it's simply "*(word / domain / addr-spec /
angle-addr)" and let 2821bis do the real definition.
pr
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