[mail-vet-discuss] authentication-results grammar w.r.t. propspec

[Charles Lindsey]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:01:42 +0100, Tony Hansen <tony at att.com> wrote:

> I've noticed that a number of implementations haven't been putting in a
> propspec when the result is a failure. And I think this may be the
> correct thing to do in certain cases.
>
> If this is the consensus of the group, then this change to the ABNF
> would be in order, to make propspec optional:
>
> old:      header = "Authentication-Results:" [CFWS] authserv-id
> old:               [CFWS] *(";" methodspec propspec [CFWS])
>
> new:      header = "Authentication-Results:" [CFWS] authserv-id
> new:               [CFWS] *(";" methodspec [propspec CFWS])
>
Yes, but I would still like to see the possibility of more than one  
<propspec>. So I would /[propspec CFWS]/*(propspec CFWS)/.

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