Re: Mailing List Last Call for 2822 update internet-draft

On 7/26/07 at 11:01 AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:

>    It is RECOMMENDED that the right hand side contain a domain
>    identifier of an entity that guarantees the uniqueness of the left
>    hand side within the scope of that domain (for example, the domain
>    name of the host itself, or a domain name controlled by the vendor of
>    the software that generates the left hand side).

How about this instead (which is a little closer to the text 
throughout the rest of the document)?:

                         ...it is RECOMMENDED that the right hand side 
contain some domain
                         identifier (either of the host itself, of the 
implementer, or otherwise)
                         such that the generator of the message 
identifier can guarantee the
                         uniqueness of the left hand side within the 
scope of that domain.

We don't talk of "software" or "vendors" in this document. 
"Implementations" and "implementers" are about it.

>In section 4.3, why does obs-zone have [CFWS] between the sign and 
>the digits of the timezone offset?  Such space was not permitted by 
>earlier specifications.

It sure was. Comments and folding white space were allowed between 
any two tokens in RFC 822. And since the syntax for zone was:

                         ("+" / "-") 4DIGIT

a comment was allowed between those two. I don't know how to read 
3.1.4 and 3.4.3 in RFC 822 and not come up with that interpretation.

pr
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