Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by CS.UTK.EDU with SMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id OAA13595; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:23:24 -0400 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (bulk_mailer v1.7); Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:23:10 -0400 Received: by CS.UTK.EDU (cf v2.9s-UTK) id OAA13564; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:23:09 -0400 Received: from glaucus.cso.uiuc.edu (glaucus.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.81.2]) by CS.UTK.EDU with ESMTP (cf v2.9s-UTK) id OAA13554; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 14:23:04 -0400 Received: from resnick1.isdn.uiuc.edu (resnick1.isdn.uiuc.edu [192.17.16.67]) by glaucus.cso.uiuc.edu (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09998; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 13:20:05 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <802564BE.0046C38F.00@mta2.lotus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Eudora [Macintosh version 4.0a5-9.97] Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 13:14:43 -0500 To: From: Pete Resnick Subject: Re: draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt-02.txt Cc: drums@cs.utk.edu On 6/22/97 at 10:17 AM -0500, wrote: >> dot-atom = *CFWS 1*(atext ["." atext]) *CFWS > >I thought that this was just convoluted syntax, until I realized that the >atext sequence a.b.c was not a valid dot-atom. Oy, was I asleep at the wheel! I thought I had fixed that. >Why not employ:- > >dot-atom = *CFWS 1*atext *("." 1*atext) *CFWS > >which would be more conventional, and also correct? Yup. That's correct. pr -- Pete Resnick QUALCOMM Incorporated Work: (217)337-6377 / Fax: (217)337-1980