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Re: Criteria for "interoperability" for email-arch

2007-05-21 11:25:52



Lisa Dusseault wrote:
IMO what matters about ABNF - and by extension any other document that provides definitional tools for other specifications - is whether or not it is
actually used by mulitplle specifications to achieve bettter
specification clarity
...

I also told other ADs my strong opinion that the real reason to move ABNF to Internet Standard was that we use it all the time and it works for us so "duh".



Independent of discussing history, this sounds as if there is agreement that use as two normative references in standards track documents should satisfy the interoperability requirement, yes?

d/

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