John C Klensin wrote:
hypothesize that, at some point, an RFC 2606bis might be created
(and go through the consensus process to BCP) that offers special
reserved names for newsgroups or mailing lists as well as domain
names
JFTR, with respect to newsgroups that is already specified in
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-12#section-3.1.4
| The following <newsgroup-name>s are reserved and MUST NOT be used as
| the name of a newsgroup:
|
| o Groups whose first (or only) <component> is "example"
The (unnumbered) NetNews standard does not go into details for
which purpose the "example"-names are reserved, but I think it
is obvious. The plan was to discuss such details in a separate
NetNews BCP later if needed.
a reasonable reader might have trouble figuring out whether
the footnote/reference anchor was part of the IMAP syntax
and example or not.
+1 A consistent footnote style can be fine in Web pages, PDFs,
and similar document formats, but it is unsuited for the ASCII
text/plain xml2rfc output format(s).
In the case of ABNF a single space could turn a clear concept into
incomprehensible gibberish if the RFC line length limits
don't agree with adding this space.
Frank
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