Re: Handling of NO-WS-CTL in 2822bis

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Pete Resnick wrote:
> Let me explain what is involved in doing this. If people are OK with this, 
> I'll go ahead. To remove NO-WS-CTL, we need to:
>
> - Remove NO-WS-CTL from ctext, qtext, utext, and dtext. (That makes utext 
> simply VCHAR.)
> - Create obs-ctext, obs-qtext, and obs-dtext which contain NO-WS-CTL. 
> (Question: Should they contain NUL as well?)
> - Add NO-WS-CTL to obs-utext.
> - Change quoted-pair to use "WS / VCHAR" instead of "text".
> - Change section 2.2 to say that header fields only contain VCHARs.
> - Change much of the text in the beginning of section 4 to add talk of 
> NO-WS-CTL.

The above looks correct and minimal to me.


> Is everyone sure they want to do this? Do we think this will recycle at 
> Proposed? It is effectively removing what we think is an unused feature from 
> the document in anticipation of Draft, but it is a significant textual 
> change.

Yes and yes.


Philip Guenther