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

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Pete Resnick wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that looks fine to me.

> >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.

Yes, you are correct.

Thank you.

--apb (Alan Barrett)