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Re: [ietf-smtp] Valid RFC5322 address

2020-05-03 15:22:58
On 03.05.20 19:45, John C Klensin wrote:
The first paragraph of Section 4.1.2 of RFC 5321 (and
rfc5321bis-03) concludes with

      "Terminals not defined in this document, such as ALPHA,
      DIGIT, SP, CR, LF, CRLF, are as defined in the "core"
      syntax in Appendix B of RFC 5234 [5] or in the message
      format syntax in RFC 5322 [11]."

So you can't say "no reference..."   However, it has been clear
to me for some time that turning that statement into a specific
list of productions defined in 5334 (not "such as" handwaving)
and a separate list of productions defined in 5322 and then
indexing both would be a considerable improvement.   If someone
wants to do the work of preparing those lists, I'd be happy to
fold them into 5321bis and provide an acknowledgment.


From RFC 5234:
- ALPHA
- DIGIT
- SP
- CRLF
- HEXDIG

From RFC 5322:
- atext
- FWS
- CFWS

CR and LF are not used in ABNF rules.

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