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draft filenames (Was Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-07 19:35:32
 Date: 2005-02-25 22:14
 From: Dave Crocker <dhc2(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net>
 
in terms of naming, I think syntactically it reduces to:


  I-D-Name       =  "draft-" owner "-" category "=" title "-" version
 
  owner          =  author-name / "ietf"
                   ; who retains change control

  author-name    = { last name of first author }
 
  category       =  working-group / topic 

  working-group  = { IETF working group }

  topic          = { term under which I-D topic fits}

  title          = { text specific to this I-D, to describe it }

No, because ABNF quoted strings denote case-insensitive matching,
whereas draft filenames are prohibited from containing upper-case
letters.  So you would need something like %x64.72.61.66.74
instead of "draft", %x69.65.74.66 instead of "ietf", and comments
about the upper-case prohibition regarding author names, etc.

Also, I believe that the "=" in the first line is a typo.

With the proposed restriction of characters to lower-case letters,
digits, and hyphen, there would probably have to be additional
commentary regarding author names (some of which contain accented
letters or use non-Latin scripts), topics, and titles.

Finally, version needs to be defined, e.g.:

   version        = 2DIGIT ; starting with 00

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