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Erratum 2950: ABNF for "fields" in Section 3.6 #39

Closed ietf-svn-bot closed 2 years ago

ietf-svn-bot commented 3 years ago

owner:resnick@episteme.net resolution_wontfix type_defect | by alexey.melnikov@isode.com

"fields" ABNF is ambiguous.

From https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?eid=2950

Issue migrated from trac:39 at 2022-01-31 12:36:55 +0000

ietf-svn-bot commented 3 years ago

@alexey.melnikov@isode.com commented

John Levine:

Reject the proposed change. The author of the erratum misunderstands how ABNF works. In particular there is no promise that ABNF will produce a unique parse for any valid string, only that it will match every valid string.

ietf-svn-bot commented 2 years ago

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ietf-svn-bot commented 2 years ago

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