Re: ABNF

Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Message-ID <200551693959.621471@bbfujip7>
>  Clearly, in the real world, "CRLF" is a euphemism for whatever the system
>  concerned uses to distinguish line endings.


the purpose of an interoperability standard is to specify things so that the 
idiosyncrasies of individual systems are not a factor.  that is the reason for 
declaring canonical representations.

people can use "whatever the system concern uses" without bother to 
suffer the cost of standards.

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