Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC5322 (3400)

> Ned Freed <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, that's incorrect. The statements RFC 3030 makes are in the context of
> > converting to and from local storage formats. The intention is clearly to say
> > that line separators/terminator/delimiters/whatever have to be represented by a
> > canonical CRLF sequence.

> The problem is that "separators/terminator/delimiters/whatever" is not
> sufficiently precise when we are concerned about the last line in the
> file. If CRLFs are separators then the terminal one is optional; if they
> are terminators then it is not.

That's correct but really beside the point. The text in RFC 3030 doesn't
explcicitly say "all lines MUST be terminated". Rather, it's saying that when
terminators (it actually uses delimiter in another place) are used they have to
be CRLFs.

				Ned
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