Re: bug #1 in draft-ietf-sip-outbound-16 grammar

Dean Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Apr 13, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Rohan Mahy wrote:

> Hi Florian,
>
> I think the intent of RFC3261 should have been to allow optional  
> whitespace at the end of a quoted-string:
>
> Currently in RFC 3261:
> quoted-string = SWS DQUOTE *(qdtext / quoted-pair ) DQUOTE
>
> Probably should have been in RFC 3261:
> quoted-string = LDQUOT *(qdtext / quoted-pair ) RDQUOT
>
> However, that is water under the bridge, so I have no objection  
> changing the c-p-instance production to look like this:
>
> c-p-instance = "+sip.instance" EQUAL DQUOTE "<" instance-val ">"  
> DQUOTE
>
> If you are responsible for an implementation however, I urge you to  
> be generous in what you receive in this regard. Please ignore  
> extraneous whitespace unless the spec gives it some special semantic  
> meaning (ex: inside a quoted string).
>

Is this something we should put in the RFC 3261 errata and essential- 
corrections process?

--
Dean

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