Re: Compatibility wit Netnews

Frank Ellermann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization <URL:http://purl.net/xyzzy>
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Charles Lindsey wrote:

> Removing <quoted-pair> from it would remove most of the problem, and
> defning a restricted version of <dtext> without NO-WS-CTL would do the
> rest (it might even be a Good Idea to remove NO-WS-CTL from all
> <dtext>s).

Yes, please.  This means no "[", "\", "]", or NO-WS-CTL inside of an
address literal, and as it happens nobody needs this for IPv4, IPv6. or
the "IPvFuture" specified in STD 66.

Frank
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