On 5/11/2011 3:06 PM, Ned Freed wrote:
Exactly. I was a little surprised we don't have something about the use
of ABNF in the conventions section. I fully support putting that in and moving
the statement about where to find missing productions there as well.
In recent years, I've been coming to the view that a document's statements about
imported definitions, rules, or the like should explicitly provide the details
of what is being imported, and from where.
So a statement might be along the lines of:
Terms used in this document that are defined in RFC AAAA:
term1
term2
ABNF rules imported from RFC XXXX:
rule1
rule2
ABNF rules imported from RFC YYYY:
rule3
rule4
This means that a search of the document, to find the definition of a term or
rule or whatever will find this explicit text. No guessing or additional
searching will be required.
At the same time, it does not suffer the dangers of repeated the actual text of
of the definition, with its potential for divergence.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net