A new version of the ABNF has just got published. We need to check that we
are still in sunc.
Carl-Uno
>To: IETF-Announce at ietf.org>cc: drums at cs.utk.edu>From: Internet-Drafts at ietf.org>Reply-to: Internet-Drafts at ietf.org>Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-drums-abnf-03.txt
>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 09:50:12 -0400
>Sender: cclark at ietf.org>> A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories. This draft is a work item of the Detailed Revision/Update of
> Message Standards Working Group of the IETF.
>> Title : Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF
> Author(s) : D. Crocker, P. Overell
> Filename : draft-ietf-drums-abnf-03.txt
> Pages : 9
> Date : 07/21/1997
>>Internet technical specifications often need to define a format syntax and
>are free to employ whatever notation their authors deem useful. Over the
>years, a modified version of Backus-Naur Form (BNF), called Augmented BNF
>(ABNF), has been popular among many Internet specifications. It balances
>compactness and simplicity, with reasonable representational power. In the
>early days of the Arpanet, each specification contained its own definition
>of ABNF. This included the email specifications, RFC733 and then RFC822
>which have come to be the common citations for defining ABNF. The current
>document separates out that definition, to permit selective reference.
>Predictably, it also provides some enhancements.
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