[feedback-report] Re: ABNF

[Yakov Shafranovich]

...... Original Message .......
On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:28:54 -0700 Paul Hoffman 
<paul.hoffman at domain-assurance.org> wrote:
>At 11:46 PM -0400 5/24/07, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
>>2. ABNF grammar will be needed at some point.
>
>Why? Have any developers found that the current description is not 
>good enough? And, more to the point, do we think those developers 
>would be helped by ABNF?
>
>I'm not a developer but I know how to read MIME stuff. I had no 
>problem reading the technical part of the spec, and the examples 
>looked exactly what I thought they would based on the spec. I don't 
>think ABNF would add much, and unless we do it perfectly, will 
>introduce errors.
>

I am not a fan of ABNF unless necessary but my understanding is that the 
IETF will require ABNF for a new MIME type (at least that was my experience 
when I wrote RFC 4080).