Subject: PWG-ANNOUNCE> FW: [Ltru] Fw: Protocol Action: 'Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifi cations: ABNF' to Draft Standard

From: "McDonald, Ira" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:55:29 -0700

Hi,

RFC 2234 (ABNF) has been superseded by an IESG approved I-D
(not yet published in a new RFC).

This affects WIMS and essentially all other PWG protocol specs.

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
Blue Roof Music / High North Inc
PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI  49839
phone: +1-906-494-2434
email: [email-masked]

-----Original Message-----
From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]On
Behalf Of Randy Presuhn
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:32 PM
To: LTRU Working Group
Subject: [Ltru] Fw: Protocol Action: 'Augmented BNF for Syntax
Specifications: ABNF' to Draft Standard 

Hi -

forwarded for your information....
The references in the registry i-d should be changed accordingly.

Randy

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "The IESG" <[email-masked]>
> To: "IETF-Announce" <[email-masked]>
> Cc: "Internet Architecture Board" <[email-masked]>; "RFC Editor"
<[email-masked]>
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 1:35 PM
> Subject: Protocol Action: 'Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF'
to Draft Standard

> The IESG has approved the following document:
>
> - 'Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF '
>    <draft-crocker-abnf-rfc2234bis-00.txt> as a Draft Standard
>
> This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
> IETF Working Group.
>
> The IESG contact person is Scott Hollenbeck.
>
> Technical Summary
>
> Internet technical specifications often need to define a format
> syntax.  Over the years a modified version of Backus-Naur Form (BNF),
> called Augmented BNF (ABNF), has been popular among many Internet
> specifications.  The current specification documents ABNF.  It
> balances compactness and simplicity, with reasonable representational
> power.  The differences between standard BNF and ABNF involve naming
> rules, repetition, alternatives, order-independence, and value
> ranges.  This specification also supplies additional rule definitions
> and encoding for a core lexical analyzer of the type common to
> several Internet specifications.
>
> This document obsoletes RFC 2234.
>
> Working Group Summary
>
> This document is the work of individual submitters.  It was produced
> to address comments received from the IESG when the IESG was asked
> to elevate RFC 2234 to Draft Standard status.  An IETF last call on
> the request to elevate RFC 2234 was completed in June 2004.
>
> Protocol Quality
>
> Harald Alvestrand, Bill Fenner, and Scott Hollenbeck evaluated this
> specification for the IESG.
>
> RFC Editor Note:
>
> Abstract and Section 1, first sentence:
> OLD:
> "Internet technical specifications often need to define a format"
>                                                           ^^^^^^
>
> NEW:
> "Internet technical specifications often need to define a formal"
> (change "format" to "formal")
>
> Section 1:
> OLD:
> "Changes in the latest version of this Internet Draft:"
>
> NEW:
> "Changes Since RFC 2234:"
>
> Section 3.1:
> OLD:
> NOTE:
>
>   NOTE: This specification for ABNF does not provide for implicit
>   specification of linear white space.
>
> NEW:
>   NOTE: This specification for ABNF does not provide for implicit
>   specification of linear white space.
> (remove frist instance of "NOTE")
>
>
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