On Aug 3, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
It's worth noting that all of the examples I've seen in RFC 733 and RFC 822 are in the "modern" form;
Never make the mistake of following the examples. The [A]BNF is always normative. Except when it's not (822, etc.) :-P I'm not sure when 'the gospel is according to the grammar' came in to play, but it has been wired into my brain so hard that I'm sure it doesn't pre-date 1996 (when I became directly involved in writing IETF 'standards'). It was certainly the case when IMAP4 arrived on the scene. I recall having some rip-roaring flame-fests with people over their loose interpretation of SP in the IMAP grammars. --lyndon
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