Re: I-D ACTION:draft-shafranovich-feedback-report-01.txt

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In <[email protected]> Yakov Shafranovich <[email protected]> writes:

>Bruce Lilly wrote:
>> 
>>    o The draft refers to RFC 2616, which is an HTTP specification that
>>      uses a different field syntax from the Internet Message Format.
>> 

>I did not find any other standard that defines the user agent field. The 
>"User-Agent" and "Mailer" fields used by email programs are not defined 
>in any standard that I was able to locate. Perhaps a new registration or 
>document for the user agent field should be written, OR the syntax 
>copied from RFC 2616 and included in this document in long hand.

You will find a definition of User-Agent, suitable for both News and Mail,
in draft-ietf-usefor-usefor-04.txt.

It is essentially the same as the one in RFC 2616, modulo a few niggles.

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