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Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 20:04:39 +0200
To: John C Klensin <klensin@mci.net>, drums@cs.utk.edu
From: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
Subject: Add FWS and CFWS to the ABNF standard

At 17.04 +0200 98-05-21, John C Klensin wrote:
> Question for the Chair, the ADs, and the WG?  What would
> you like to do here?   One possibility is that Pete and I
> put our heads together and very quickly produce a doc that
> might be described as "ABNF Base Syntax for Email-related
> Standards" which picks up everything in the intersection of
> his definitions and mine, and maybe everything used by
> either of us that is used, e.g., in the NOTARY or MIXER
> docs.  This would obviously be a superset of the "core"
> spec in 2234.  Or we could decide to live with either the
> normative dependencies or duplicate information.

That would be very useful. Especially definitions of FWS
and CFWS, which are needed in almost every standard, should
have been in the ABNF standard itself.

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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/~jpalme