[NNTP] Re: Command names
Ken Murchison
ken at oceana.com
Mon Oct 18 07:10:45 PDT 2004
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
>
> Okay, here's the proposal. Any comments or objections?
>
> In 3.1:
>
> - Keywords MUST consist of printable US-ASCII characters.
> + Keywords MUST contain only US-ASCII letters, digits, dot ("." or %x2E),
> + and dash ("-" or %x2D) and MUST begin with a letter.
>
> [The bit about case-insensitive is further down.]
>
> In 8:
>
> - An extension is identified by a unique extension-label, which is a string
> - of 1 to 12 uppercase US-ASCII letters.
> + An extension is identified by a unique extension-label, which is a
> + keyword; it MUST be between 3 and 12 characters, MUST contain only
> + US-ASCII letters, digits, dot ("." or %x2E), and dash ("-" or %x2D),
> + and MUST begin with a letter. Extension-labels are case insensitive.
>
> In 9.1:
>
> - x-command-name = 3*12A-CHAR
> + x-command-name = keyword
>
> In 9.4:
>
> - extension-label = 1*12UPPER
> + extension-label = keyword
>
> In 9.5:
>
> + keyword = ALPHA 2*11(ALPHA / DIGIT / "." / "-")
Looks reasonable to me, provided there aren't any other special chars
that might be desirable. What is the rationale for restricting a
keyword to something less that all printable chars?
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