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Re: ABNF in draft-ietf-spki-cert-structure-05.txt
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At 05:33 PM 11/19/98 +0000, Alan Barrett wrote:
>Would it be a good idea to convert the BNF in
>draft-ietf-spki-cert-structure-05.txt to use the ABNF syntax defined in
>RFC 2234? RFC 2234 is currently at Proposed Standard.
>
>The only difficulty I see is that RFC2234 specifies that all strings
>are case-independent, but we could presumably override that by saying
>something like
>
> BNF constructs in this document use a variant of ABNF [RFC
> 2234]. The only difference between the variant used in this
> document and the ABNF defined in [RFC 2234] is that quoted
> strings in the BNF used in this document are case-dependent
> (so that "display" and "DisPlAy" mean different things), but
> quoted strings in [RFC 2234] ABNF are case-independent (so that
> "display" and "DisPlAy" mean the same thing).
>
>--apb (Alan Barrett)
I'm in the middle of re-doing that draft and will look at RFC2234.
- Carl
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