Subject: [Ietf-calsify] Question about section 3.1: name ABNF

From: alexey.melnikov at isode.com (Alexey Melnikov)
Date: Thu Feb 22 05:36:04 2007

>3.1.  Content Lines
[...]
 >      contentline        = name *(";" param ) ":" value CRLF
 >      ; This ABNF is just a general definition for an initial parsing
 >      ; of the content line into its property name, parameter list,
 >      ; and value string
 >
 >      ; When parsing a content line, folded lines MUST first
 >      ; be unfolded according to the unfolding procedure
 >      ; described above. When generating a content line, lines
 >      ; longer than 75 octets SHOULD be folded according to
 >      ; the folding procedure described above.
 >
 >      name               = x-name / iana-token
 >
 >      iana-token = 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT / "-")

The name can start with a digit: is this a bug or a feature?