Re: Just got AUTH48 notice for USEPRO

In <[email protected]> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:

>I just got the AUTH48 notice for USEPRO.  I'll try to look at it soon.

As a joint author of both documents, I get to see the AUTH48 comments of
both of them :-( .

I have looked as USEFOR so far, and the RFC-Editor has changed a host of
nits to meet his "house style" and they mostly seem fine.

But there is one big issue, and that is he wants to replace RFC 2822 with
RFC 5322 throughout. That is fine by me, but if we do it for one we need
to do it for both, and in the case of USEFOR it would require a
considerable pruning of the syntax of <msg-id>.

Essentially, the USEFOR syntax is a strict subset of the RFC 2822 syntax,
but NOT of the RFC 5322 syntax. And since the changes of syntax between
2822 and 5322 were made at the express request of us Usenet folk, it would
seem churlish not to adopt them (especially since doing so would remove a
singularly long and ugly set of now unnecessary syntax rules).

Therefore, I propose that we should do that. I will try to produce the
necessary textual changes in the next few days.

BTW, our two drafts will become RFC 5536 and 5537, which seems kind neat!

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