On 5/16/25 6:59 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
On 5/16/25 7:33 AM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
On 5/15/25 8:37 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
3) How would you deal with something like:
"Each message MUST conform to the syntax specified by ABNF
rule 'Message' defined in Appendix Z."
That would be trying to make a normative paragraph referencing an informative
section (because appendixes should always be informative). Hopefully the IESG
or the RFC-Editor will stop that.
You seriously want to forbid normative ABNF?
I never said anything about forbidding normative ABNF, I just explained why I
think it is wrong.
So you are still saying that the RFCs that use ABNF normatively would
have been better if they had not?
Then the question still remains: for an RFC that uses normative ABNF
extensively, such as RFC3261, do you seriously think it could have been
written with all the normative parts being English? And that would be
better?
How would you specify all that syntax in English?
Thanks,
Paul
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