[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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