Subject: IPP> PRO - I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-drums-abnf-03.txt

From: Carl-Uno Manros <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 07:57:17 -0700

A new version of the ABNF has just got published.  We need to check that we
are still in sunc.

Carl-Uno

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> A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
> directories. This draft is a work item of the Detailed Revision/Update of 
> Message Standards Working Group of the IETF.                              
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>       Title     : Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF           
>       Author(s) : D. Crocker, P. Overell
>       Filename  : draft-ietf-drums-abnf-03.txt
>       Pages     : 9
>       Date      : 07/21/1997
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>Internet technical specifications often need to define a format syntax and 
>are free to employ whatever notation their authors deem useful.  Over the 
>years, a modified version of Backus-Naur Form (BNF), called Augmented BNF 
>(ABNF), has been popular among many Internet specifications.  It balances 
>compactness and simplicity, with reasonable representational power.  In the
>early days of the Arpanet, each specification contained its own definition 
>of ABNF.  This included the email specifications, RFC733 and then RFC822 
>which have come to be the common citations for defining ABNF.  The current 
>document separates out that definition, to permit selective reference.  
>Predictably, it also provides some enhancements.                           
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