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Re: One Mistake and One Question of RFC2812.

2006-08-28 06:48:21
Hello,

The RFC Editor already knows the error in RFC2812 but not in RFC2813.
See http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.html. Please tell the RFC
Editor about the error in RFC2813.

Please see RFC4234 for the full definition of Augmented BNF.
Section 3.6 explains * .

Thanks

Brian  Carpenter
IETF Chair

huangxiangkui(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com wrote:
Hello,

I am only a Chinese student.And my English is lame.
So sorry for my lame English,at first.


I found a mistake in rfc2812.I think you could fix this.

At the page 5 of the protocol,


=======<quotation>======================================

"The presence of a prefix is indicated with a single leading ASCII
colon character (':', 0x3b),....."
======================================================================

The code of the letter ':' is 0x3a.It is not 0x3b.And the code 0x3b is
the letter ';'.
And you could find the same mistake in rfc2813 what is the next
version of the protocol.
I do feel you should fix this mistake.



And I have a question of the protocol rfc2812.

At the page 5 of rfc2812,

In "2.3.1 Message format in Augmented BNF".

I couldn't understand what's the meaning of "*".

=======<quotation>======================================

The Augmented BNF representation for this is:

   message    =  [ ":" prefix SPACE ] command [ params ] crlf
   prefix     =  servername / ( nickname [ [ "!" user ] "@" host ] )
   command    =  1*letter / 3digit
   params     =  *14( SPACE middle ) [ SPACE ":" trailing ]
              =/ 14( SPACE middle ) [ SPACE [ ":" ] trailing ]

   nospcrlfcl =  %x01-09 / %x0B-0C / %x0E-1F / %x21-39 / %x3B-FF
                   ; any octet except NUL, CR, LF, " " and ":"
   middle     =  nospcrlfcl *( ":" / nospcrlfcl )
   trailing   =  *( ":" / " " / nospcrlfcl )

   SPACE      =  %x20        ; space character
   crlf       =  %x0D %x0A   ; "carriage return" "linefeed"
======================================================================



I think it is different between the "*" in "command" and the "*" in "middle".
I do feel you should get some explanation of the "*","()","[]",and so on or
show us where can we find the explantion.


That is what I want to tell you.Wait for you answer.

Yours.


Huang Xiangkui,a student from China.

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